Hello Thomas, Is there a way to change where the temporary directory is made? The test suite can take a lot of disk space and some of us would prefer to store the test output on a different partition.
Thanks, Edward Excerpts from Thomas Miedema's message of 2016-05-17 09:11:53 -0700: > Hello GHC developers, > > the testsuite driver now runs each test in a temporary directory in /tmp, > after first linking/copying all files that the test requires to that > directory. > > When adding a new test: > > ** if your test requires source files that don't start with the name of > your test, then you *have to* specify those files using the `extra_files` > setup function. [1]* > > * you no longer have to specify files to cleanup (`clean_files` and > `clean_cmd` are deprecated) > > * you no longer have to add generated files to `testsuite/.gitignore` > > * you no longer have to worry about two tests possibly overwriting each > others intermediate (.o, .hi) files, and you no longer have to > specify `-outputdir` if you want to let multiple tests use the same source > files. > > Example: > > *BEFORE:* > test('driver011', > extra_clean(['A011.hi', 'A011.o']), > run_command, > ['$MAKE -s --no-print-directory test011']) > > *AFTER:* > test('driver011', > extra_files(['A011.hs']), > run_command, > ['$MAKE -s --no-print-directory test011']) > > See https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/11980 and > https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/RunningTests/Adding for more > information. > > Cheers, > Thomas > > [1] Extra files for existing tests are currently listed in > `testsuite/driver/extra_files.py`. _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs