The testsuite setup is broken
I just ran the ghc regression test on my MacBook. It says:
OVERALL SUMMARY for test run started at Sat Jan 20 18:26:17 EST 2007
- ..
266 unexpected failures
So either my setup is totally wrong (I have the latest sources), or the testsuite is not set up right. The point of a test suite is that you should be able to run it before and after a change and see if something bad has happened. If the norm is to get unexpected failures, then they are not unexpected, are they?
So which is it? Did I miss something setting up ghc, or does is the test suite giving unexpected failures normally? If it's the latter I strongly recommend changing how the suite is set up. There might be failures that should be fixed, but that are still expected at the moment. Well, then say so.
Lennart
Trac metadata
| Trac field | Value |
|---|---|
| Version | 6.6 |
| Type | Bug |
| TypeOfFailure | OtherFailure |
| Priority | normal |
| Resolution | Unresolved |
| Component | Compiler |
| Test case | |
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| CC | |
| Operating system | Unknown |
| Architecture | Unknown |