Re: ghc 8.6.x release clearly fails validate or even make test, some help please!

2018-11-20 Thread Carter Schonwald
That doesn’t help when I want to look at the output for 50 failed tests ... is this a gap in our current tooling? On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 2:40 PM Ben Gamari wrote: > > > On November 20, 2018 1:23:29 PM EST, Carter Schonwald < > carter.schonw...@gmail.com> wrote: > >Happy to: > > > >What’s the

Re: ghc 8.6.x release clearly fails validate or even make test, some help please!

2018-11-20 Thread Carter Schonwald
Happy to: What’s the best way to look at the Diffs / expected actual for 50 or so tests? So I can better triage these things as important or not going forward? For all I know it could be as simple as our passing diff stuff is white space significant. But I need some guidance on what files I

are ghc commits only getting make fast test'd on OSX?

2018-11-20 Thread Carter Schonwald
thats the only explanation of why i see s many test suite failues of a GHC RELEASE when i do make test ... why do we not have a full ./validate run on each tier one platform as part of some official release check list? DO WE HAVE a checklist for releases? if not, we should, this shouldn't be

How to distinguish local ids from imported ones in Stg? Confused about isLocalId/isLocalVar

2018-11-20 Thread Ömer Sinan Ağacan
Hi, I just found out that semantics of isLocalId/isLocalVar change during compilation. I realized this the hard way (after some debugging) but later realized that this is documented in this note: (the last line) Note [GlobalId/LocalId] ~~~ A GlobalId is *