Validate trouble on x86 linux

[Thorkil Naur]

Hello,

With your recent patches applied, validate for

> checking version of ghc... 6.2

ends like this

> /usr/bin/ghc -Werror -H64m -Onot -fasm  -istage1/utils  -istage1/basicTypes  
-istage1/types  -istage1/hsSyn  -istage1/prelude  -istage1/rename  
-istage1/typecheck  -istage1/deSugar  -istage1/coreSyn  -istage1/vectorise  
-istage1/specialise  -istage1/simplCore  -istage1/stranal  -istage1/stgSyn  
-istage1/simplStg  -istage1/codeGen  -istage1/main  -istage1/profiling  
-istage1/parser  -istage1/cprAnalysis  -istage1/ndpFlatten  -istage1/iface  
-istage1/cmm  -istage1/nativeGen -Wall -fno-warn-name-shadowing -Istage1 -cpp 
-fglasgow-exts -fno-generics -Rghc-timing -I. -Iparser -package unix -recomp 
-Rghc-timing -O -fasm -H16M '-#include "cutils.h"' -DUSING_COMPAT -i../compat 
-package unix    -c utils/Interval.hs -o stage1/utils/Interval.o  -ohi 
stage1/utils/Interval.hi
>
> utils/Interval.hs:52:
>     Warning: Defined but not used: contains, i_lim, i_min, overlaps
> <<ghc: 38814616 bytes, 11 GCs, 831250/1606220 avg/max bytes residency (2 
samples), 17M in use, 0.00 INIT (0.00 elapsed), 0.20 MUT (0.33 elapsed), 0.04 
GC (0.06 elapsed) :ghc>>
> make[1]: *** [stage1/utils/Interval.o] Error 1
> make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> <<ghc: 17790244 bytes, 6 GCs, 56432/56432 avg/max bytes residency (1 
samples), 18M in use, 0.00 INIT (0.00 elapsed), 0.04 MUT (0.43 elapsed), 0.05 
GC (0.02 elapsed) :ghc>>
> make: *** [stage1] Error 1

With

> version of ghc... 6.6.1.20070507

we get through and end with this report:

> OVERALL SUMMARY for test run started at Fri Sep 21 23:31:59 CEST 2007
>     1949 total tests, which gave rise to
>     7498 test cases, of which
>        0 caused framework failures
>     5872 were skipped
>
>     1551 expected passes
>       74 expected failures
>        0 unexpected passes
>        1 unexpected failures
>
> Unexpected failures:
>    ffi018(ghci)

Many others seem to agree on failing the ffi018 test. But in any case, the 
compat/cbits/unicode.c problem "error: floating constant in preprocessor 
expression" is now gone

Thanks and best regards
Thorkil