#11737: Make validate --testsuite-only behave correctly w.r.t. bindisttest -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: goldfire | Owner: Type: feature | Status: new request | Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Build System | Version: 8.1 Keywords: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: | Type of failure: None/Unknown Unknown/Multiple | Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: Differential Rev(s): | Wiki Page: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- I'm in the process of validating. One of the error messages is a bit wrong, so I change the error message code. But the change is more than just the phrasing of the message; it's conceivable that a mistake in this edit will cause misbehavior, but only on rejected programs. So I determine that I don't need to re-run the full validation, but just recompile and run the testsuite. I recompile. I say `validate --testsuite-only`. And then, after I read the results, I realize that validation uses the bindist version of the GHC, which isn't the one that I just built. So have to do it all again. Thus, request: have `--testsuite-only` not use the bindist version. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/11737 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler