[cfe-dev] New contributor, `make test` not doing anything

[Sidney San Martín via cfe-dev]

Thanks to both of you! These work.

On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 4:14 PM, Richard Smith <richard at metafoo.co.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 12:23 PM, Sidney San Martín
> <cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> > (Reposted from llvm-dev)
> >
> > I came to the recent LLVM/Clang hackathon and made a new checker for
> > clang-tidy. I'm working on wrapping up and submitting my patch, and I
> can't
> > seem to run the tests.
> >
> > - First, I followed the instructions at
> > http://clang.llvm.org/hacking.html#testingNonWindows. I ran `make test`
> in
> > my build directory, and also tried running `make` in the `test`
> > subdirectory. They both exited in under a second with no output.
> >
> > - Then, I tried doing the same thing in the `tools/clang/tools/extra`
> > subdirectory of my build directory, where clang-tidy lives. Same result.
> >
> > - Finally, I found
> http://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/#testing-checks.
> > This explains how to create tests but not how to run them. I made a
> > relatively wonky command line that seems to run my test successfully
> (along
> > the lines of `PATH=$PATH:$BUILD_DIR/bin ./check_clang_tidy.py
> > ../../test/clang-tidy/misc-my-check.cpp misc-my-check /tmp/foo.tmp`),
> but it
> > doesn't feel right.
> >
> > What should I be doing instead?
>
> Wow, that documentation is extremely out of date.
>
> Use the build target 'check-clang' to run the Clang tests, and
> 'check-clang-tools' to run the tests for clang's tools/extra. These
> should be run from the build directory, not from the 'test' directory.
>
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