#12349: Parallel make should interleave output if it means we can report an error earlier -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: ezyang | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 8.0.1 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: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Steps to reproduce: 1. Take the example from #12347 2. Run `ghc --make` and observe what order the modules are reported in (on my box the ordering is `C`, `B`, then `A`) 3. Modify `A` to be a small, quick-to-compile module with a type error. `module A where x = True True` works grand. 4. Run `ghc --make All A B C -j4 +RTS -N4` Expected result: `ghc --make` reports the error in `A` immediately Actual result: `ghc --make` ponders for a while before reporting the error An interesting way to mix up the experiment is to put the type error in `C` rather than `A`. Then indeed the error is reported early, but GHC fails to exit until some undetermined later time (it is certainly not waiting for the other threads to finish compiling, because you don't see object files being produced.) -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12349 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler