Hello, The "validate" script against GHC HEAD freezes on FreeBSD 9.1. After sync-all, I did as follow: ---------------------------------------------------------------- % config_args="--with-iconv-includes=/usr/local/include --with-iconv-libraries=/usr/local/lib --with-gmp-includes=/usr/local/include --with-gmp-libraries=/usr/local/lib --with-gcc=/usr/local/bin/gcc47" CPUS=10 sh validate ---------------------------------------------------------------- This stopped quickly due to this problem: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7592 Then I executed "validate" with "--no-clean" again. ---------------------------------------------------------------- % config_args="--with-iconv-includes=/usr/local/include --with-iconv-libraries=/usr/local/lib --with-gmp-includes=/usr/local/include --with-gmp-libraries=/usr/local/lib --with-gcc=/usr/local/bin/gcc47" CPUS=10 sh validate --no-clean ---------------------------------------------------------------- GHC could be compiled and tests started. But this resulted in: ---------------------------------------------------------------- cd ../../libraries/base/tests && '/usr/home/kazu/work/ghc/bindisttest/install dir/bin/ghc' -fforce-recomp -dcore-lint -dcmm-lint -dno-debug-output -no-user-package-db -rtsopts -fno-ghci-history -o qsemn001 qsemn001.hs >qsemn001.comp.stderr 2>&1 cd ../../libraries/base/tests && ./T5962 T5962.run.stdout 2>T5962.run.stderr cd ../../libraries/base/tests && ./5943 5943.run.stdout 2>5943.run.stderr cd ../../libraries/base/tests && ./T7034 T7034.run.stdout 2>T7034.run.stderr cd ../../libraries/base/tests && ./qsem001 qsem001.run.stdout 2>qsem001.run.stderr cd ../../libraries/base/tests && ./qsemn001 qsemn001.run.stdout 2>qsemn001.run.stderr Wrong exit code (expected 0 , actual 9 ) Stdout: Stderr: *** unexpected failure for Chan002(normal) ---------------------------------------------------------------- And waiting for something forever. Does anyone understand what happened? Note that I can build GHC HEAD by typing "gmake" (v3.82 installed by the ports system) twice. This is a serious problem for us since we want to merge our code to GHC HEAD. "validate" against GHC with our code on Linux and Mac passed so far. But "validate" against even vanilla GHC freezes. P.S. On FreeBSD, I applied the following patch for validate since unused-but-set-variable is not available. diff --git a/mk/validate-settings.mk b/mk/validate-settings.mk index 399bf0e..378a3e6 100644 --- a/mk/validate-settings.mk +++ b/mk/validate-settings.mk @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ HADDOCK_DOCS = YES # Debian doesn't turn -Werror=unused-but-set-variable on by default, so # we turn it on explicitly for consistency with other users ifeq "$(GccLT46)" "NO" -SRC_CC_WARNING_OPTS += -Werror=unused-but-set-variable +#SRC_CC_WARNING_OPTS += -Werror=unused-but-set-variable # gcc 4.6 gives 3 warning for giveCapabilityToTask not being inlined SRC_CC_WARNING_OPTS += -Wno-error=inline endif --Kazu