#16026: No way to run a subset of the testsuite -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: bgamari | Owner: (none) Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: high | Milestone: 8.8.1 Component: Build System | Version: 8.6.2 (Hadrian) | Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: | Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: None/Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | Differential Rev(s): Wiki Page: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by alpmestan): I'm afraid we want the "list of tests to run" to be supplied at runtime, as rebuilding hadrian whenever I want to look at, say, only a subset of those 10 tests that I was running before, would be a bit annoying. The way I see it, `UserSettings` are useful when you want to do things that you'd usually do in `build.mk`, i.e add some extra options for GHC or the C compiler here and there, things like that. It's not something you'll be editing a lot while working on a particular patch, probably more of a "edit once at the beginning and not much afterwards" kind of workflow. While names of tests to run can definitely change from a minute to the next, when you're looking into group of failing tests "per theme" for example. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/16026#comment:4 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler