[libcxx-commits] [PATCH] D101779: [libcxx] Update docs regarding the need for bash/posix tools for tests on Windows. NFC.
Martin Storsjö via Phabricator via libcxx-commits
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Tue May 4 12:13:23 PDT 2021
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Closed by commit rGe87fb6d38755: [libcxx] Update docs regarding the need for bash/posix tools for tests on… (authored by mstorsjo).
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https://reviews.llvm.org/D101779
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libcxx/docs/BuildingLibcxx.rst
Index: libcxx/docs/BuildingLibcxx.rst
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--- libcxx/docs/BuildingLibcxx.rst
+++ libcxx/docs/BuildingLibcxx.rst
@@ -98,7 +98,10 @@
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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.
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