ghci and other test failures on Windows.

[Simon Marlow]

On 08 September 2004 01:34, Mike Thomas wrote:

> Hi Simon.
> 
>>> Interesting: I'm using gcc 3.2.3 (just a bog-standard installation
>>> of the stable mingw bundle).  Could you install 3.2.3 and try
>>> building with that?
>> 
>> OK.
> 
> That went through without any GHC compiler crashes and only 369
> unexpected failures as the mailout to cvs-ghc last night showed:
> 
> $ c:/lang/MinGW-3.1.0/bin/gcc --version
> gcc.exe (GCC) 3.2.3 (mingw special 20030504-1)
> Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There
> is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
> PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 
> 
> $ c:/lang/MinGW-3.1.0/bin/ld --version
> GNU ld version 2.13.90 20030111
> Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the
> terms of the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely
> no warranty. 
> 
> Of course, it could also be a MinGW32 runtime or win32 library/header
> bug. 

Ok, well that's a positive result at least.  If I get time I'll
investigate why 3.3 isn't working properly on Windows.

You shouldn't be getting all those test failures - I tried a couple of
your tests that failed on my box, and they work fine.  It's probably
another /r/n problem  somewhere, but I checked and I have committed all
the fixes I made.  Strange.

Cheers,
	Simon