[lldb-dev] check-lldb will start using in-tree clang by default

[Davide Italiano via lldb-dev]

I think that this change (or some change nearby) broke `check-lldb` on Fedora.

I'm investigating, but in the meanwhile, here's the log.

$ ninja check-lldb
[2/2] Testing LLDB (parallel execution, with a separate subprocess per test)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/davide/work/llvm-lldb/tools/lldb/test/dotest.py", line
7, in <module>
    lldbsuite.test.run_suite()
  File "/home/davide/work/llvm-lldb/tools/lldb/packages/Python/lldbsuite/test/dotest.py",
line 1099, in run_suite
    parseOptionsAndInitTestdirs()
  File "/home/davide/work/llvm-lldb/tools/lldb/packages/Python/lldbsuite/test/dotest.py",
line 282, in parseOptionsAndInitTestdirs
    if not is_exe(configuration.compiler):
  File "/home/davide/work/llvm-lldb/tools/lldb/packages/Python/lldbsuite/test/dotest.py",
line 54, in is_exe
    return os.path.isfile(fpath) and os.access(fpath, os.X_OK)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/genericpath.py", line 37, in isfile
    st = os.stat(path)
TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, NoneType found
FAILED: cd /home/davide/work/build-lldb/tools/lldb/test &&
/usr/bin/python2.7
/home/davide/work/llvm-lldb/tools/lldb/test/dotest.py -q --arch=x86_64
--executable /home/davide/work/build-lldb/bin/lldb -s
/home/davide/work/build-lldb/lldb-test-traces -S nm -u CXXFLAGS -u
CFLAGS -C /home/davide/work/build-lldb/bin/clang --env
ARCHIVER=/usr/bin/ar --env OBJCOPY=/usr/bin/objcopy
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.

On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 7:18 PM, Pavel Labath via lldb-dev
<lldb-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> I am going to check in a change (D39215) which causes the check-lldb
> target to use the just-built clang for compiling the test inferiors
> (instead of the system compiler, which was the old default). The main
> reason for this is to provide better reproducibility of test results
> between different machines/developers, by removing one of the main
> sources of nondeterminism. This behavior can be overridden by setting
> the LLDB_TEST_C_COMPILER and LLDB_TEST_CXX_COMPILER cmake variables.
>
> For the change to take effect you will need to clean your build folder
> (or at least, remove the affected variables from your CMakeCache.txt).
> After this you may observe a change in the test results from the
> check-lldb run.
>
> Note that this change only affect cmake code -- if you run your tests
> by running dotest.py directly, nothing will change for you.
>
> regards,
> pavel
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