[libcxx-commits] [libcxx] [libcxx][test] Add support for LLVM-style split tests (PR #188283)

Michael Buch via libcxx-commits libcxx-commits at lists.llvm.org
Thu Mar 26 08:40:01 PDT 2026


Michael137 wrote:

> > I'm not very familiar with pip packages. Is rewriting split-file in Python a pre-requisite to @boomanaiden154's suggestion? I assumed so, similar to FileCheck.
> 
> Nothing would need to be rewritten in Python to publish as a pip package. The plan was to ship the existing binaries.
> 
> I guess for `split-file` we could feasibly reimplement it as a lit builtin, but if we're already going to be shipping FileCheck which I don't think we want to put the effort in to reimplement, we shouldn't reimplement `split-file` given the effort of shipping both is probably 5% more than shipping one.

Ahh ok I misunderstood then. I assumed it had to be Python. Not sure I want to sign up for doing the packaging of those utilities since I know nothing about it :) But if nobody is actively working on it I can try make some headway, since I'm probably the one that's mostly blocked by all this

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/188283


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