[libcxx-commits] [libcxx] e87fb6d - [libcxx] Update docs regarding the need for bash/posix tools for tests on Windows. NFC.

[Martin Storsjö via libcxx-commits]

Author: Martin Storsjö
Date: 2021-05-04T22:13:08+03:00
New Revision: e87fb6d3875569bbc2e729732433e4865cdd1eff

URL: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/e87fb6d3875569bbc2e729732433e4865cdd1eff
DIFF: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/e87fb6d3875569bbc2e729732433e4865cdd1eff.diff

LOG: [libcxx] Update docs regarding the need for bash/posix tools for tests on Windows. NFC.

After 39bbfb77264a4a7a216921c2b70a30ba0f27eb56, bash is no longer
a hard requirement.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D101779

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Modified: 
    libcxx/docs/BuildingLibcxx.rst

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diff  --git a/libcxx/docs/BuildingLibcxx.rst b/libcxx/docs/BuildingLibcxx.rst
index 24e0a4cded17..c44ab9d1fbec 100644
--- a/libcxx/docs/BuildingLibcxx.rst
+++ b/libcxx/docs/BuildingLibcxx.rst
@@ -98,7 +98,10 @@ CMake + ninja (MSVC)
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 Building with ninja is required for development to enable tests.
-Running the tests also requires a Bash shell and Python to be available.
+A couple of tests require Bash to be available, and a couple dozens
+of tests require other posix tools (cp, grep and similar - LLVM's tests
+require the same). Without those tools the vast majority of tests
+can still be ran successfully.
 
 If Git for Windows is available, that can be used to provide the bash
 shell by adding the right bin directory to the path, e.g.