[Haskell-cafe] Cannot run GHC-7.10.1 tests

[Jeremy Henty]

Jeremy Henty (ie. me) wrote:
> 
> Bernhard Herzog wrote:
> > On 29.04.2015, Jeremy Henty wrote:
> > > But since you suggested it, I tried running all the test commands from
> > > within  the  ghc-7.10.1/testsuite directory  and  they  all failed  as
> > > follows:
> > >
> > >    mk/boilerplate.mk:168: mk/ghcconfig_data_build.d_6.8_ghc-7.10.1_inplace_bin_ghc-stage2.mk: No such file or directory
> > >    ./mk/ghc-config "/data/build.d/6.8/ghc-7.10.1/inplace/bin/ghc-stage2"
> > > >"mk/ghcconfig_data_build.d_6.8_ghc-7.10.1_inplace_bin_ghc-stage2.mk"; if [ $? != 0 ]; then 
> > rm -f "mk/ghcconfig_data_build.d_6.8_ghc-7.10.1_inplace_bin_ghc-stage2.mk"; exit 1; fi 
> > >    /bin/sh: ./mk/ghc-config: cannot execute binary file
> > >    make: *** [mk/ghcconfig_data_build.d_6.8_ghc-7.10.1_inplace_bin_ghc-stage2.mk] Error 1
> > 
> > 
> > Just tried  this myself. I get  very similar errors. The  reason is,
> > AFAICT, that  the testsuite  tarball contains  some build-artifacts,
> > particularly  some  binaries.  A   "make  clean"  in  the  testsuite
> > directory before running the tests helps.
> 
> Thanks,  that worked!   I get  a  few unexpected  failures from  "make
> fast".  Should I be concerned?

*cough* *bump*

Any thoughts  on this?   The wiki  suggested that  I should  expect no
errors from  "make fast"  so this  is a  little surprising.   Should I
install  regardless or  investigate  further?  (There  were 11  errors
which is a pretty small fraction of the total.)

Regards,

Jeremy Henty