Run ghc's test can't work

[sighingnow]

When I run build.stack.sh test, I get the following error:

runtests.py: error: unrecognized arguments: --configfile=testsuite/config/ghc

The ghc's --configfile flag has already been renamed to --config-file six months ago.

[sighingnow]

I would like to push a patch to improve the test support of hadrian. Should I submit the patch to GHC phabricator or open a pull request here ?

[snowleopard]

@sighingnow Many thanks for the report and for offering your help! Please open a PR here.

Note that there is also the validate build rule, which runs GHC's validation script, which you might want to try as well. However, in any case we should try to fix the test rule.

[bgamari]

@angerman, @alpmestan, I believe this is relevant to your work.

[alpmestan]

@bgamari It is, but as you can see in #495, @sighingnow and I discussed all the problems that we respectively had identified, both there and by email a little bit. @sighingnow seemed well on the way to getting a good chunk of the tests working. We'll be able to reuse that work directly (even though it might require a tweak or two) with the relocatable approach, nothing scary really. :)

[izgzhen]

Running ./build.sh test now led to an error:

/home/zhen/repos/ghc/_build/stage1/rts/build/libCffi_p.a: copyFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
shakeArgsWith    0.000s    0%                           
Function shake   0.219s    0%                           
Database read    0.232s    0%                           
With database    0.098s    0%                           
Running rules  604.736s   99%  =========================
Total          605.286s  100%                           
Error when running Shake build system:
* test
* _build/stage1/bin/ghc
* OracleQ (PackageDataFile (Context {stage = Stage1, package = Package {pkgLanguage = Haskell, pkgType = Program, pkgName = "ghc-bin", pkgPath = "ghc"}, way = v}))
* _build/stage1/ghc/setup-config
* _build/stage1/lib/package.conf.d/containers-0.5.11.0.conf
* OracleQ (PackageDataFile (Context {stage = Stage1, package = Package {pkgLanguage = Haskell, pkgType = Library, pkgName = "containers", pkgPath = "libraries/containers"}, way = v}))
* _build/stage1/libraries/containers/setup-config
* _build/stage1/lib/package.conf.d/ghc-prim-0.5.2.0.conf
* OracleQ (PackageDataFile (Context {stage = Stage1, package = Package {pkgLanguage = Haskell, pkgType = Library, pkgName = "ghc-prim", pkgPath = "libraries/ghc-prim"}, way = v}))
* _build/stage1/libraries/ghc-prim/setup-config
* _build/stage1/lib/package.conf.d/rts-1.0.conf
ExitFailure 1

[snowleopard]

This seems to be superseded by #669.