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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks, committed in r248469 and r248470.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> chris.matthews@apple.com [mailto:chris.matthews@apple.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> 23 September 2015 16:45<br><b>To:</b> Kristof Beyls<br><b>Cc:</b> LLVM Commits; Daniel Dunbar<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [PATCH][LNT] Avoid creating temporary files in LNT source checkout when running regression tests<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>LGTM! Thank!<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Sep 23, 2015, at 8:35 AM, Kristof Beyls <<a href="mailto:kristof.beyls@arm.com">kristof.beyls@arm.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>I haven’t found much time to work on LNT in the past few months and wanted to come back to finally<br>land my binary hash patch, but wanted to do a bit more testing on it. That’s when I realized that there<br>isn’t much documentation on how to develop LNT and particularly on how to best run the regression<br>tests. Therefore, I’ve started writing a very initial developer guide for LNT, which I’ve just uploaded for<br>review at<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://reviews.llvm.org/D13101"><span style='color:purple'>http://reviews.llvm.org/D13101</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>While writing these guidelines on how to run regression tests while developing LNT, similar to how everyone<br>runs regression tests when developing other LLVM sub-projects, I realized again that running the regression<br>tests leave temporary files in the source checkout. That has annoyed me quite a bit in the past, e.g. every<br>time I needed to run something like “git status” in there. The attached 2 patches should fix this.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The first patch makes sure that no .pyc files get generated when running the regression tests.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The second patch results in temporary files being created in a sub-directory called “test_run_tmp” of the current directory,<br>instead of scattered across the test source code directory. This makes it possible to run the tests out-of-source-tree.<br>Even when you do run the tests in the source tree, all the temporary files are in a separate directory, not<br>scattered across the test source directories.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Do these changes look fine to commit?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Kristof<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><0001-Don-t-generate-.pyc-files-when-running-tests.patch><0002-Avoid-leaving-temporary-files-in-the-source-when-run.patch><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>