Would be a strong +1 from me, since it would mean: 1. We could script in the "Plan B" from here [0] and add it to default "./validate" to have less work for people to either search via Wiki or get recommendations in Trac tickets to notice these additional tests 2. We would notice things like currently-broken hmatrix installation and previously-broken dph- ones immediately. 3. Dead-tests and dead-code is always an unfortunate thing to have. [0]: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Debugging/InstallingPackagesInplace On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Carter Schonwald

wrote:

Relatedly, might it be a good idea for at least the phab build bot tests to enable stuff like the tests that use vector and other widely used packages? On Apr 6, 2015 3:46 AM, "Thomas Miedema" wrote:

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Hi Konstantine,

thanks for investigating this. I updated the wiki by removing those packages from the list.

The testsuite driver simply skips tests that depend on packages that are not installed (dph-* in this case). I don't know what to about those tests though, as dph is unmaintained and not in a working state.

I someone really wanted to, they could try building ghc with `BUILD_DPH=yes` in build.mk, then `cd testsuite/tests/dph`, remove all `reqlib` calls to the deprecated dph-* packages in the `.T` files, run `make test`, and see what happens.

Please note that running the full testsuite in general results in lots of failed tests. The continuous integration system only runs `make fasttest`.

Thomas

On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Konstantine Rybnikov wrote:

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Hi!

There’s «Additional Packages» section [0] which lists packages that need to be installed in order to run full testsuite. But I couldn’t install dph-* ones, first errors I was getting were regular cabal-constraint ones. I wrote an author Ben Lippmeier, but he replied that dph-* packages were obsolete and not maintained anymore. I grepped and saw that all tests are under testsuite/dph folder. So: does GHC still run them at all? Should we edit wiki? Or edit test-suite?

Thanks!

[0]: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/RunningTests/Running#Addition...

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