Re: Build failures blocking testing

2013-07-12 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, of Colin’s original list of build-related testing migration blockers, only the ghc failue on s390x remains: Am Montag, den 17.06.2013, 22:36 +0100 schrieb Colin Watson: > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7993 unfortunately, upstream has not reacted on this bug. How should we pro

Re: Build failures blocking testing

2013-06-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 04:21:34PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: > I think this should be escalated to GHC, they know their code better and > maybe your analysis is enough to make them say „ah, right, that part of > the code is fishy, try this patch“. > > (I guess I am overly optimistic.) Well,

Re: Build failures blocking testing

2013-06-17 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Montag, den 17.06.2013, 00:44 +0100 schrieb Colin Watson: > * There are several build failures on s390x, generally presenting as a > hung build terminated after a timeout, such as ghc itself [1]. > These started when packages started building with ghc 7.6 as a > build-dependen

Build failures blocking testing

2013-06-16 Thread Colin Watson
I've been looking through build failures trying to unblock GHC 7.6 from testing, and have fixed up various problems affecting the BSDs and the like. Figuring out which ones are relevant across so many packages can be a bit of a chore, so I thought I'd share my results for what's left. I *believe*