The last time I did a full validate was about two weeks ago, I saw the same failures as you described on the ticket. I will report the issues from now. Matt On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 3:04 PM, Ben Gamari wrote:

Matthew Pickering writes:

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Occasionally a do a full validate on OSX, there are usually some tests which fail but not on other systems. I usually don't report these failures as there are always some and they are usually do to do with parts of the compiler I don't know anything about.

However, on https://phabricator.haskell.org/D2485 Richard (Fung) and Ben were discussing these failures which I have also seen so it seems I would have wasted less time if I had reported these somewhere.

What is the expectation for OSX? Should the test suite be entirely clean? Should I create issues when some of the tests get broken?

Indeed it should always build. Really OS X is Tier 1 platform and as such should have a build bot. I'm trying to get Futurice's OS X machine setup as a Harbormaster node but technology has a way of fighting back.

Regardless, it would be quite helpful if you could file a bug documenting these. By the way, do you recall when you started seeing these failures?

Cheers,

- Ben