Test Suite's Dependency on Quickcheck

[Brian Smith]

After further review, I can see that the test suite also requires 'network,'
'html,' and 'mtl' for all the tests to pass.

Maybe we need to separate the packages into three groups: core, tests, and
extras, where all the packages required by the test suite would get put into
the "tests" group?

Besides the dependencies on these non-core packages, there are 7 tests
(maybe a couple more) that only work on Cygwin or Unix, but fail on
MSYS/MinGW. Would you accept patches to these tests to make them run without
Cygwin on Windows?

The tests that would need to be patched are:

* cabal01 and cabal02

   Cabal is trying to execute
        ghc\compiler\stage2\ghc-inplace
   which is a shell script. Cabal expects it to be an
   executable.

* process001, process002, and process003

    These tests have "c:/cygwin/bin/ls" hard-coded
    into them, so they will fail on any system that
    doesn't have Cygwin in that exact location.

* prog001, prog002, and prog003

    These tests execute Unix commands like
    "rm," and "ls" via :shell, so they fail on
    non-Unix/non-Cygwin systems.

Tests requiring package 'QuickCheck':
    =====> SampleVar001
    =====> Chan001
    =====> MVar001
    =====> QSemN001
    =====> QSem001
    =====> bytestring001
    =====> bytestring004
    =====> bytestring005
    =====> ghci014
    =====> maessen_hashtab

Tests requiring package 'mtl':
    =====> mod133
    =====> drvfail006
    =====> drvfail008
    =====> reify
    =====> tc183
    =====> tcfail126
    =====> tree

Tests requiring package 'network' (and, transitively, package 'html'):
    =====> net001
    =====> net002
    =====> conc056
    =====> pkg02_b
    =====> uri001


On 9/12/06, Brian Smith < brianlsmith at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If you build GHC with just the default settings, QuickCheck doesn't get
> pulled from Darcs and it is thus not built and installed into ghc-inplace.
> Because of this, many of the tests in the test suite fail:
>
> SampleVar001
> Chan001
> MVar001
> QSemN001
> QSem001
> bytestring001
> bytestring004
> bytestring005
>
> I think that the test suite should run without errors by default. What is
> the best way to deal with this situation? Probably the easiest thing to do
> would be to include QuickCheck as a "core package" as defined in the thread
> "Packages in GHC 6.6." Then QuickCheck would need to be copied into the
> ghc-6.6 branch. Thoughts?
>
> - Brian
>
>
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