Summary of GHC 6.6 test suite failures on MSYS/MinGW

[Ian Lynagh]

On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 12:23:27PM -0500, Brian Smith wrote:
> I finished re-running the test suite with all the necessary libraries
> installed.

Cool, thanks!

> * utf8_002, utf8_003, utf8_004, utf8_005:
> 
> These tests all fail the same way, outputing:
>     utf8_002.hs:2:0: lexical error at end of input
> instead of:
>    utf8_002.hs:2:0: lexical error (UTF-8 decoding error)

This is just due to different alex's giving different errors.

> * conc023(ghci)
> 
> This test only fails when run via GHCi. This test runs out of memory. The
> error message to stderr is:
>    conc023: failed to create OS thread: Not enough storage is available to
> process this command.
> 
> When I came back to the computer I saw that Windows was warning me that I
> was out of virtual memory and that it was increasing my page file size. I
> have 1GB of RAM which I think should be sufficient to run the testsuite
> successfully.

Does that happen repeatably?


Thanks
Ian