ghci024 on tnaur PPC OSX head

[Claus Reinke]

i'm surprised to see ghci024 failing unexpectedly on
"tnaur PPC OSX head". the reports never seem to
be in visible range when i look at

http://darcs.haskell.org/buildbot/head/

but one can reconstruct the last build url (could there
please be a direct link from the buildbot page headers
to the last builds?)

did i misspell the platform in ghci/scripts/all.T
(the spelling matches the error message, but
various different spellings seem to be in use), or
does expect_broken_if_platform not work if
composed with prepare024?

all.T:

    execfile(in_testdir('ghci024.py')) # load function prepare024
    test('ghci024', compose(prepare024,
        expect_broken_if_platform(1845,"powerpc_apple_darwin")),
        ghci_script, ['ghci024.script'])


testsuite log (build 167):

    ghc-6.9.20080118: internal error: unconditional relative branch out of range: jump island out of 
range
        (GHC version 6.9.20080118 for powerpc_apple_darwin)
        Please report this as a GHC bug:  http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug

    *** unexpected failure for ghci024(ghci)


it would be nice to use an enum type or, if python
doesn't have that, to check platform parameters
to expect_broken_if_platform for validity?

claus