@fgaz do you mind taking a look at the cabal-testsuite here? It looks like the macros aren't expanding.

@fgaz do you mind taking a look at the cabal-testsuite here? It looks like the macros aren't expanding.

very odd. did you try calling the output normalizer manually on that string? what does it do?

@fgaz what's the procedure for that?

Not sure if there's a better way, but i'd just load cabal-testsuite/src/Test/Cabal/OutputNormalizer.hs in ghci and call normalizeOutput directly. If it works, I'd check what's wrong in the NormalizerEnv that gets passed to it (guess: normalizerKnownPackages)

Quoting @Mikolaj from another pr, What's the status here? How can we help to move it forward?

Ping! Will you still work on this @emilypi ?

If @emilypi is not working on this anymore, I'm happy to be assigned to this. In #7952 I have already dropped the tests for old GHCs, I need to remember to drop the support in the code.

@andreabedini: yes, please, go ahead!

oh boy this is going to be a big rebase :D (rolls up sleaves)

We should close this when #8079 is ready for merge, if @emilypi agrees of course

This work has been implemented in #8079, which has been merged. Thanks @emilypi for starting this <3