bug#35944: [PATCH] gnu: packages: haskell: happy: Disable tests

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Robert Vollmert <address@hidden> skribis:

> Below is a patch that does that. I’m now running into similar issues when
> compiling ghc-scientific; should OOM test failures at 2G of memory generally
> be considered worth fixing?

I’d say yes, as long as we’re just talking about a small fraction of the
GHC packages.

> As an alternative, would it be feasible to implement a --skip-tests
> flag for guix build?

That would amount to building a different derivation, so that’s not
really a solution.

> From 7b7029d99df7df2ccdbfb4026edd91daa2a5763e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Robert Vollmert <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 21:10:24 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: ghc-happy: Skip memory-hungry tests.
>
> Tests fail reliably for me on a system with 2GB of available RAM, in
> `issue93.a.hs` and `issue93.n.hs`.
>
> * gnu/packages/haskell.scm (ghc-happy): Skip test "issue93".

I copied the explanation as a comment and applied.

Thanks!

Ludo’.