yeah, this turned out to be the dwarf issue i think, On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 10:05 PM Ben Gamari wrote:

Sorry for the latency, I'm currently working through a few weeks of email backlog.

Carter Schonwald writes:

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thats the only explanation of why i see soooo many test suite failues of a GHC RELEASE when i do make test ...

It's hard to comment without knowing more about what specific failures you are seeing.

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why do we not have a full ./validate run on each tier one platform as part of some official release check list?

We do. All of the Tier 1 platforms have go through full validation. You can see this yourself by looking at .circleci/config.yml.

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DO WE HAVE a checklist for releases? if not, we should, this shouldn't be happening

Yes, we do. It is here [1].

Cheers,

- Ben

[1] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/MakingReleases