Are there any guidelines on how much memory is required to run the tests? On my Mac I have 12 GB of RAM and a few hundred gigabytes of free disk space. The first time I did 

and I got a message 

  • Your system has run out of application memory
so I reran with
  • make test
and left it running unattended. My machine crashed about an hour later.

Thanks


On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 2:01 PM Ben Gamari <ben@well-typed.com> wrote:
George Colpitts <george.colpitts@gmail.com> writes:

> Thanks Brandon
>
> After downloading the source tarball and doing a build successfully I
> wanted to run the testsuite.
>
You can indeed run the testsuite.

However, note that the testsuite is not included in the "-src" tarball
to keep the distribution size down. There is a separate "-testsuite"
tarball which includes the testsuite/ subtree. This can be extracted
into the parent directory of the source tree. You should find this
tarball in the usual place [1].

Cheers,

- Ben


[1] https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.2.1-rc1/ghc-8.2.0.20170404-testsuite.tar.xz