[libcxx patch] Modify testit to allow filtering tests by prefixes

[Albert Wong (王重傑)]

Sorry, it's attached now.

Yep, I'm aware that you can invoke the script from anywhere the hierarchy.
I've found the prefix reduction still useful if only one case is failing in
a directory and I want fast edit/compile/run cycles for that single test.


On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Marshall Clow <mclow.lists at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Dec 31, 2013, at 5:06 AM, Albert Wong (王重傑) <ajwong at google.com> wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> This was a simple modification to testit which allows for filtering test
> based on an environment variable. It was originally done to the android ndk
> variant of this script (where it was very useful for reducing
> compile/run/debug cycle times) so I thought I'd backport it incase anyone
> wanted it.
>
> Usage would be:
>
> libcxx/test/language.support/support.dynamic/new.delete/new.delete.single$ TEST_PREFIX=new_replace ../../../../testit
>
> Albert —
>
> I see no patch here.
>
> Also, are you aware that you can invoke the test it script from anywhere
> in the test directory hierarchy, and it will test “from there down”?
>
> — Marshall
>
>
>
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