Make the testsuite standalone

The testsuite uses very little from the fptools framework, and could quite easily be made standalone. This would have a few benefits:

People could download it from darcs without having a GHC source tree, add tests

and submit them using 'darcs send', or attach the darcs patch to a bug report.
It would be a step in the right direction towards making the test suite more

compiler-independent
We could ask people to grab a testsuite and do 'make fast', as a quick

verification of their GHC installation.
Might this be a good framework for building a set of Haskell' conformance

tests?

When this is done, we should also have a wiki page for the testsuite describing how to get it and use it.

A nice little project for someone?

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