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RE: nightly build nofib failures: msg#00046

lang.haskell.glasgow.bugs

Subject: RE: nightly build nofib failures


> There is a bug in the nightly build scripts for running the nofib
> suite. Nofib programs can fail, yet the build output will still
> be "ok.". In fact, every single nofib program can fail to
> compile, but it will still be "ok." in the nightly mail.
>
> In a normal nightly build, we get this kind of output for
> a nofib run:
> "**** running nofib ... ok."
> Taking
> http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/cvs-ghc/2003-July/017999.html
> as an example, we see that all nofib's were "ok". Now, if we go
> and look at the logs:
> http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/ghc/dist/current/logs/
>
> Looking in nofib-2, we see that there are lots (all?) fails: primes,
> queens, etc. Looking in nofib-5 all tests fail, because it
> is build the -unreg way witout library support.
>
> So here is a quick sh patch against nightly/bin/nightly-wrk to
> print the number of failures a nofib run produced. It produces
> output like this, where failures are printed if they occur.
>
> **** running nofib ... ok.
> **** running nofib ... ok.
> **** running nofib ... ok. (4 failures)
> **** running nofib ... ok. (4 failures)

Committed, thanks!

Cheers,
Simon


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