Test static exe

Author: snoyberg

.azure/azure-linux-template.yml

@@ -43,18 +43,14 @@ jobs:
         stack)
           stack $ARGS test --haddock --no-haddock-deps --ghc-options="$GHC_OPTIONS" --copy-bins --local-bin-path bin
 
-          set +e
+          # Get output about whether the exe is dynamically linked
+          # Ignore the exit code though, we don't want to fail just because it is static
+          ldd ./bin/stack || true
 
-          NEW_EXE=$(stack $ARGS exec which stack)
-          echo $NEW_EXE
-          $NEW_EXE --version
-          ldd $NEW_EXE
-
-          # Make sure Alpine actually builds a static exe that works on Ubuntu
+          # Make sure we can run the executable on this OS
+          # Important to make sure the Alpine exe is properly static
           ./bin/stack --version
-          ldd ./bin/stack || true # ldd returns exit code 1 on statics, which we don't want to fail for
 
-          set -e
           ;;
         pedantic)
           stack --system-ghc build --pedantic