[llvm] [lit][bazel] Fall back to a default PATHEXT when the variable is unset (PR #217416)

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https://github.com/UebelAndre updated https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/217416

>From d42e8db3e92682235bd4ff1ec4aac5b11f736c6b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: UebelAndre <github at uebelandre.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2026 11:00:14 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [lit][bazel] Fall back to a default PATHEXT when the variable
 is unset

---
 llvm/utils/lit/lit/util.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/llvm/utils/lit/lit/util.py b/llvm/utils/lit/lit/util.py
index 8ab109fe15d45..6596c1d12dd84 100644
--- a/llvm/utils/lit/lit/util.py
+++ b/llvm/utils/lit/lit/util.py
@@ -130,7 +130,11 @@ def which(command, paths=None):
     # Get suffixes to search.
     # On Cygwin, 'PATHEXT' may exist but it should not be used.
     if os.pathsep == ";":
-        pathext = os.environ.get("PATHEXT", "").split(";")
+        # If PATHEXT was stripped from the environment then use
+        # a sane fallback so binaries can still be located.
+        fallback = ".COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD"
+
+        pathext = os.environ.get("PATHEXT", fallback).split(";")
     else:
         pathext = [""]