ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.10.1 beta

Don Stewart dons at galois.com
Mon Sep 29 17:36:41 EDT 2008


kili:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 07:07:33PM +0200, Matthias Kilian wrote:
> > And my problem with the testsuite was a PEBKAC (of course): on
> > OpenBSD, python is installed as python-2.3, python-2.4, python-2.5
> > (you can have several versions installed in parallel), which isn't
> > found by configure, which in turn lets the testsuite bail out.
> > Setting PythonCmd during configure fixed it.
> > 
> > I've yet to evaluate the results of the testsuite. I'll post it in
> > a few hours.
> 
> Summary (skipping all the details):
> 
> OVERALL SUMMARY for test run started at Sun Sep 28 17:57:33 CEST 2008
>     2233 total tests, which gave rise to
>    12011 test cases, of which
>        0 caused framework failures
>     2244 were skipped
> 
>     9324 expected passes
>      140 expected failures
>       20 unexpected passes
>      283 unexpected failures
> 
> This looks more scary than it is; many unexpected failures are
> caused by a change in Rational formatin ("17%42" vs. "17 % 42"),
> some others are probably caused by OpenBSD specific stuff (e.g.,
> warnings about the use of unsafe functions like strcpy(3), different
> output behaviour on signals like SIGSEGV, and, well the unicode
> (causing unexpected passes) and some threading differences are most
> probably also OS-dependent candidates). Some problems are not
> strictly OpenBSD specific, but just triggered due to the more
> restrictive default limits (number of open file descriptors, datasize,
> etc.). Finally, some tests just did time out (this isn't the fastest
> machine in the universe).
> 
> A full test log is available at
> http://openbsd.dead-parrot.de/ghctests/ghc-6.10-openbsd-i386.log
> 
> And a shorter log (using a really horrible awk script for stripping down
> the full log):
> http://openbsd.dead-parrot.de/ghctests/ghc-6.10-openbsd-i386.shortlog
> 
> Fallout from the following tests looks a little bit suspicious:
> 
> num009
> num012
> galois_raytrace (well, I didn't read the whol diff ;-))
> driver019 (I think a fix for this has been pushed during the last 24 hours)
> ffi009
> tough
> all the hpc stuff
> copyFile001 (but there was a push for it recently, IIRC)

Great work Kili!!

-- Don


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