Txxxx & driverXXXX failures.

[Edward Z. Yang]

In that case, these may be legit regressions for Solaris.  In particular,
it looks like the previously failing driver programs are no longer failing.
It would be useful if we could get output from the failing test programs;
is that logged anywhere?

Edward

Excerpts from Karel Gardas's message of Wed Apr 13 11:14:20 -0400 2011:
> 
> Unfortunately cleaning the build tree does not help. At least I've 
> completely rm -rf tempbuild subdirectory on builder and still I get 39 
> unexpected failures, see:
> http://darcs.haskell.org/ghcBuilder/builders/kgardas-opensolaris-x86-head/190/11.html
> 
> Thanks,
> Karel
> 
> On 04/13/11 01:52 PM, Edward Z. Yang wrote:
> > I suggest cleaning the build trees and letting them try again.
> > I think we fixed the first set in the test suite, and the second set is a problem
> > with build dependencies and the RTS.
> >
> > Edward
> >
> > Excerpts from Karel Gardas's message of Wed Apr 13 07:11:25 -0400 2011:
> >>
> >> Edward,
> >>
> >> if I recall correctly you have hinted on cvs-ghc@ mailing list that you
> >> still need to solve Txxxx and driverYYYY failures caused by some of your
> >> patches. I'm curious is it still the case? If not, then I would like to
> >> bring your attention to freebsd[3] and opensolaris[4] based builders
> >> where such failures are still presented and were not presented at the
> >> beginning of April. For example speaking about opensolaris builder which
> >> is run on my workstation and I care about it. The builder runs with 12
> >> unexpected failures for a long time till April 5[1]. Then on April 6
> >> there was a build failure due to some issue in makefiles and then on
> >> April 7 driverXXXX start to fail:
> >>
> >> driver016(normal)
> >> driver017(normal)
> >> driver028(normal)
> >> driver035(normal)
> >> driver045(normal)
> >>
> >> contributing to total 17 unexpected failures and finally on April 9 we
> >> got to 38 unexpected failures[2]. Very similar pattern you can also
> >> observe on FreeBSD based HEAD builder [3] except that the number of
> >> failures in total is a little bit lower.
> >>
> >> I'm asking you because of your hint on mailing list and since I'm not
> >> able to judge what patch exactly causes the failures yet. Do you think
> >> that's some of yours or shall I report those new failures to ghc trac?
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >> Karel
> >>
> >>
> >> [1]:
> >> http://darcs.haskell.org/ghcBuilder/builders/kgardas-opensolaris-x86-head/183/11.html
> >> [2]:
> >> http://darcs.haskell.org/ghcBuilder/builders/kgardas-opensolaris-x86-head/185/11.html
> >> [3]: http://darcs.haskell.org/ghcBuilder/builders/pgj/
> >> [4]:
> >> http://darcs.haskell.org/ghcBuilder/builders/kgardas-opensolaris-x86-head/
> >