Validates failures on Mac OS X AND Linux

[Manuel M T Chakravarty]

Simon Peyton-Jones:
> I've pushed a fix for the ones marked *
> Apart from that, only T1969 (a delicate resource test) fails for me.
>
> | Unexpected failures:
> |     Base1(normal)   *
> |     Compose(normal)   *
> |     PList1(normal)   *
> |     PList2(normal)   *
> |     T1969(normal)
> |     T3007(normal)
> |     T3294(normal)
> |     boxy(normal)   *
> |     break008(ghci)
> |     print033(ghci)   *
> |     simpl017(normal)   *
> |     tc211(normal)   *
> |     tc214(normal)   *
> |     tcfail165(normal)   *
> |     user001(normal)

Thanks for fixing that.  On our Linux box, I still get two more  
failures than you though (this is on 32-bit Linux with the HEAD from  
today):

> Unexpected failures:
>    T1969(normal)
>    T3294(normal)
>    user001(normal)

Manuel