Testing containers outside of ghc source tree

[Milan Straka]

Hi,

> > However, the HEAD testsuite driver is designed to be used with the HEAD,
> > so may need tweaking to work with older compilers. In this case, the
> > -fno-ghci-history flag isn't supported by any released version yet.
> 
> Thanks for help. I managed to run tests properly.
> 
> Meanwhile I've found:
> 
> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/containers-benchmark
> 
> Is there an idea how these two should relate?

Containers-benchmark is a package for benchmarking only, it contains
no tests. I use from time to time to measure impact of code changes.
So the package is orthogonal to the testsuite.

Cheers,
Milan