Subject: [bug#36692] [PATCH 2/2] gnu: [email-masked]: Skip failing tests

From: Robert Vollmert <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 20:58:36 +0200

These two tests require the existence of user root with id 0.

* gnu/packages/haskell.scm (ghc-8.6): Add phase 'skip-tests.
---
 gnu/packages/haskell.scm | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/haskell.scm b/gnu/packages/haskell.scm
index 0d53f16b2a..e672ea9232 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/haskell.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/haskell.scm
@@ -636,6 +636,14 @@ interactive environment for the functional language Haskell.")
                      (assoc-ref inputs "ghc-testsuite")
                      "--strip-components=1")
              #t))
+         ;; These two tests refer to the root user, which doesn't exist.
+         (add-after 'unpack-testsuite 'skip-tests
+           (lambda _
+             (substitute* "libraries/unix/tests/all.T"
+               (("^test\\('T8108'") "# guix skipped: test('T8108'"))
+             (substitute* "libraries/unix/tests/libposix/all.T"
+               (("^test\\('posix010'") "# guix skipped: test('posix010'"))
+             #t))
          ;; This phase patches the 'ghc-pkg' command so that it sorts the list
          ;; of packages in the binary cache it generates.
          (add-before 'build 'fix-ghc-pkg-nondeterminism
-- 
2.20.1 (Apple Git-117)