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

[Spiwack, Arnaud]

My favourite way is (in the testsuite/ directory) to make accept (usually make
TEST=<the tests I care about> accept), then inspect the diff with git diff
(well, I use magit, but same difference, or whatever your favourite git
diff inspector is).

On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 10:34 PM Carter Schonwald <
carter.schonwald at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>
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