ghc 8.6.x release clearly fails validate or even make test, some help please!

[Carter Schonwald]

That doesn’t help when I want to look at the output for 50 failed tests ...
is this a gap in our current tooling?

On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 2:40 PM Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> wrote:

>
>
> On November 20, 2018 1:23:29 PM EST, Carter Schonwald <
> carter.schonwald at gmail.com> wrote:
> >Happy to:
> >
> >What’s the best way to look at the Diffs / expected actual for 50 or so
> >tests? So I can better triage these things as important or not going
> >forward?  For all I know it could be as simple as our passing diff
> >stuff is
> >white space significant.  But I need some guidance on what files I
> >should
> >be looking at
> >
> >I can’t find any docs on how to poke at / read those on the wiki.  Alp
> >suggested just running a single test at a time, but that’s no ideal
> >when
> >it’s so many ...
> >
> >I ran that ghc build with clang from llvm 7 on high Sierra and no
> >carter
> >patches.
> >
> >I did cd testsuite ; make test THREADS=7
> >
> You can add TEST="T1234 T5678" to the "make test" command line. This is
> documented here [1]. Does this help?
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Ben
>
>
> [1]
> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/RunningTests/Running#Commonlyusedoptions
>
>
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