Good idea! I've setup nightly builds from my Mountain Lion machine.
You can see the result and log files at http://maxsbot.net If anyone else has machines they can add, email me. Hopefully we can find one for Snow Leopard and one for Mavericks. On 14/11/2013, at 8:03 PM, Simon Peyton-Jones <simo...@microsoft.com> wrote: > This does raise a point I hope we'll address more aggressively after the 7.8 > release, namely trying to keep ghc less broken by default! GHC being really > really really broken between releases is probably the single HUGEST barrier > to more people getting involved in helping GHC dev. And I think thats a huge > problem we need to take more seriously. > > > I totally agree with this. What it needs is a Mac SWAT team who build GHC on > Macs nightly, warn about problems and help fix them. > > One recent total Mac breakage was due to the compulsory move to clang instead > of gcc. I gather that has caused a lot of pain. I’ve seen a lot about > Xcode too, whatever that is. > > Anyway, Mac folk, we need you! > > Simon > > From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-boun...@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Carter > Schonwald > Sent: 14 November 2013 04:24 > To: Ben Lippmeier > Cc: ghc-devs@haskell.org > Subject: Re: Validate broken on Snow Leopard and Mountain Lion > > Ben has an excellent point: > > if things are broken on mac, lets fix it! Especially since we should be > hitting RC status shortly.... any breakages should be smashed ASAP. > > This does raise a point I hope we'll address more aggressively after the 7.8 > release, namely trying to keep ghc less broken by default! GHC being really > really really broken between releases is probably the single HUGEST barrier > to more people getting involved in helping GHC dev. And I think thats a huge > problem we need to take more seriously. > > > > > > On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Ben Lippmeier <b...@ouroborus.net> wrote: > > > On 13/11/2013, at 8:02 PM, Christiaan Baaij wrote: > > > Does validate work for the DPH packages on Linux? > > "sh validate" runs fine on my Linux machine, but neither of my Macs. > > I can also run the dph tests manually on Linux, and they work fine. > > > Ben. > > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-devs@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > > > > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-devs@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
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