[lldb-dev] Running lit (googletest) tests remotely

[Reid Kleckner via lldb-dev]

You might want to look at the compiler-rt tests, which have support for
remote runs. Search for the '%run' substitution. It's probably not directly
applicable to gtest tests, though.

On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 8:17 AM, Pavel Labath via lldb-dev <
lldb-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> we are trying to convert some of the lldb tests to lit (for these
> specific tests we are using the googletest format). One of our
> requirements is that we are able to run these tests remotely, so that
> we are able to verify that we can debug e.g. android arm binaries even
> though our development environment runs x86 linux).
>
> As far as I am aware, right now there is no support for that in lit:
> running check-lldb-unit target in a cross-compile situation will
> attempt to run the run the test binaries as if they were native and
> fail horribly.
>
> Based on a not-too-detailed examination of the lit codebase, it does
> not seem that it would be too difficult to add this capability: During
> test discovery phase, we could copy the required files to the remote
> host. Then, when we run the test, we could just prefix the run command
> similarly to how it is done for running the tests under valgrind. It
> would be up to the user to provide a suitable command for copying and
> running files on the remote host (using rsync, ssh, telnet or any
> other transport he chooses).
>
> What do you think? Would something like that be a welcome addition to
> the llvm testing infrastructure? Has anyone tried to do something like
> that and hit major road blocks I did not anticipate?
>
> Or, if you have any suggestions on how to run tests in cross-compile
> setting differently, I'd love to hear about them.
>
> regards,
> pavel
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