Hi Tim, On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 11:53:32AM -0300, tim.beech wrote:
My build script unpacks the binary distribution for "unknown linux" and builds GHC against that. (Both are version 7.4.2.) I have avoided installing anything else (such as the Haskell Platform) so as to keep as close as possible to the ideal of a package as a transparent, reproducible process that only depends on the source. As far as I can tell from the build prerequisites
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/Tools
the only consequence is that documentation is only created as html, not pdf and ps as well.
You don't need the haskell-platform to build the docs; I suspect you're missing dblatex.
Unexpected failures: lib/Time T5430 [bad stdout] (normal) perf/compiler parsing001 [stat not good enough] (normal) simplCore/should_compile spec-inline [stderr mismatch] (optasm)
That is after running the fast version of the test suite, which the documentation says should pass 100%.
My second question is, do these results suggest anything as to where the problem may lie, and how important it is?
You'd need to look at how the tests failed. If you add TEST="T5430 parsing001 spec-inline" to the command you were running the testsuite with then it'll run just those tests, which will make it easier to see what's happening.
When I then installed the new package and built the Haskell Platform against it (using the build script at http://slackbuilds.org), although the installation nonetheless appeared to be succesful, the build script failed at the very end where it tries to do
ghc-pkg recache
When I did this manually, I discovered root permissions were needed. Is that normal?
I'm not familiar with the HP build script, I'm afraid. Thanks Ian