After further review, I can see that the test suite also requires 'network,' 'html,' and 'mtl' for all the tests to pass.

Maybe we need to separate the packages into three groups: core, tests, and extras, where all the packages required by the test suite would get put into the "tests" group?

Besides the dependencies on these non-core packages, there are 7 tests (maybe a couple more) that only work on Cygwin or Unix, but fail on MSYS/MinGW. Would you accept patches to these tests to make them run without Cygwin on Windows?

The tests that would need to be patched are:

* cabal01 and cabal02

   Cabal is trying to execute
        ghc\compiler\stage2\ghc-inplace
   which is a shell script. Cabal expects it to be an
   executable.

* process001, process002, and process003

    These tests have "c:/cygwin/bin/ls" hard-coded
    into them, so they will fail on any system that
    doesn't have Cygwin in that exact location.

* prog001, prog002, and prog003

    These tests execute Unix commands like
    "rm," and "ls" via :shell, so they fail on
    non-Unix/non-Cygwin systems.

Tests requiring package 'QuickCheck':
    =====> SampleVar001
    =====> Chan001
    =====> MVar001
    =====> QSemN001
    =====> QSem001
    =====> bytestring001
    =====> bytestring004
    =====> bytestring005
    =====> ghci014
    =====> maessen_hashtab

Tests requiring package 'mtl':
    =====> mod133
    =====> drvfail006
    =====> drvfail008
    =====> reify
    =====> tc183
    =====> tcfail126
    =====> tree

Tests requiring package 'network' (and, transitively, package 'html'):
    =====> net001
    =====> net002
    =====> conc056
    =====> pkg02_b
    =====> uri001

On 9/12/06, Brian Smith < brianlsmith@gmail.com> wrote:

If you build GHC with just the default settings, QuickCheck doesn't get pulled from Darcs and it is thus not built and installed into ghc-inplace. Because of this, many of the tests in the test suite fail:

SampleVar001
Chan001
MVar001
QSemN001
QSem001
bytestring001
bytestring004
bytestring005

I think that the test suite should run without errors by default. What is the best way to deal with this situation? Probably the easiest thing to do would be to include QuickCheck as a "core package" as defined in the thread "Packages in GHC 6.6." Then QuickCheck would need to be copied into the ghc-6.6 branch. Thoughts?

- Brian