bug#22251: ghc-memory test suite fails on i686

[Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>]

Hi Simon,

zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:

> This bug is very old.  And probably not relevant anymore.
>
> On Sun, 27 Dec 2015 at 14:35, Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> wrote:
>> The ghc-memory test suite has failed several times in a row on i686 with
>> the same errors:
>>
>>   http://hydra.gnu.org/build/893578
>
> This build number is about openldap-2.4.46.i686-linux on
> core-updates-core-updates.

I don't recognize the web interface that is currently being served at
<http://hydra.gnu.org/build/893578>.  It certainly does not resemble the
page that was there when I filed the bug.  I'm pretty sure that at the
time, it referred to a failed 'ghc-memory' build.

> With Guix f4450e8ca909530ee3432710b82f97e23acc7fef, the tests suite of
> ghc-memory is turn on and the substitute seems available.

Well, as I vaguely recall (possibly mistakenly), ghc-memory sometimes
built successfully back in 2015 on i686-linux as well.  The issue I
reported was that it often failed.

Unfortunately, last I checked, Cuirass still does not provide anything
close to the level of functionality that Hydra previously provided for
us.  So maybe this bug still exists, or maybe it doesn't.  The
information provided by 'guix weather' is too crude to answer that
question.

Anyway, I agree that we should close this bug.  I'll do so now.
I doubt that many GHC users are on i686 systems anyway.

Thanks again for working through these old bugs, Simon.

     Regards,
       Mark