Re: build testsuite or not?

2018-05-30 Thread Jens Petersen
Thanks, Ben for your helpful reply. Okay then I think I will disable the testsuite for most Fedora builds then. I never really look at them these days any more to be honest. Cheers, Jens On 31 May 2018 at 00:32, Ben Gamari wrote: > Jens Petersen writes: > >> Okay I have one more question abou

Loading GHC into GHCi (and ghcid)

2018-05-30 Thread Matthew Pickering
Hi all, Csongor has informed me that he has worked out how to load GHC into GHCi which can then be used with ghcid for a more interactive development experience. 1. Put this .ghci file in compiler/ https://gist.github.com/mpickering/73749e7783f40cc762fec171b879704c 2. Run "../inplace/bin/ghc-st

Re: Unable to build on NixOS

2018-05-30 Thread Ben Gamari
Patrick Dougherty writes: > Huh, > > So this is a bug I thought I dealt with :/ > In the short term, I've found that often simply trying the build again > can fix it. This is a dependency issue that I don't 100% understand. > I also encountered this (although it's rather unlikely to occur with hi

Re: [Haskell] [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.4.2 released

2018-05-30 Thread Ben Gamari
Andrés Sicard-Ramírez writes: > On 19 April 2018 at 19:01, Ben Gamari wrote: >> The GHC team is pleased to announce the availability of GHC 8.4.2. > > Please note that the tar files for the binary distributions for Linux > (x86_64) Debian 9 and Debian 8 are the same (i.e. > ghc-8.4.2-x86_64-deb8

Re: build testsuite or not?

2018-05-30 Thread Ben Gamari
Jens Petersen writes: > Okay I have one more question about my packaging of ghc for Fedora. > > For long I always build the testsuite for every release perf build on all > archs > (for an example see the build.log links on > https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1086491). > > Is

Re: LclId -> GblId question

2018-05-30 Thread Gabor Greif
Never mind, I figured it out. It is the CoreTidy pass of the compilation pipeline: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Compiler/HscMain Cheers, Gabor On 5/29/18, Gabor Greif wrote: > Hi devs, > > I have a simple question, but could not find an answer yet. The same > variable (I

build testsuite or not?

2018-05-30 Thread Jens Petersen
Okay I have one more question about my packaging of ghc for Fedora. For long I always build the testsuite for every release perf build on all archs (for an example see the build.log links on https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1086491). Is this a useful meaningful thing to do?

Re: ghci recompilation avoidance

2018-05-30 Thread Evan Laforge
On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 11:46 PM, Kim-Ee Yeoh wrote: >> It turns out that git checkouts update the modtime on checked-out files, >> even > when they get reverted back to their original contents. > > Looks to me the problem's right here. Namely, git checkout. > > If the contents didn't change, the