https://phabricator.haskell.org/D518

Can someone give me guidance on how to write a test case? I am trying to write a test case for a new flag that generates a file (much like -ddump-to-file).

I started by trying to cat the generated file to get it into the stdout/stderr

+test('T8624', normal, run_command,
+     ['echo $MAKE && $MAKE T8624 && cat T8624.th.hs'])

But I get this error:

cd . && echo $MAKE && $MAKE T8624 && cat T8624.th.hs    </dev/null >T8624.run.stdout 2>T8624.run.stderr
make
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/ghc/testsuite/tests/th'
cc   T8624.o   -o T8624
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.9/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/crt1.o: In function `_start':
(.text+0x20): undefined reference to `main'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
<builtin>: recipe for target 'T8624' failed
make[1]: *** [T8624] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/ghc/testsuite/tests/th'
Wrong exit code (expected 0 , actual 2 )