[LLVMdev] RFC: Dropping DejaGNU

[Devang Patel]

On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Daniel Dunbar <daniel at zuster.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> As you may or may not have noticed, I have gradually been replacing
> the testing infrastructure in LLVM. Most of this work is moving LLVM
> and Clang to share a single testing tool, 'lit'. See:
>  http://llvm.org/cmds/lit.html
> for documentation on the tool itself.
>
> If you haven't already tried it, please consider switch to 'make
> check-lit' as an alternative to 'make check'. If it doesn't work for
> you, or you find it doesn't do something DejaGNU did and you like,
> please let me know. My eventual plan is to move to lit entirely and
> drop DejaGNU support, so consider yourself warned.
>
> A couple key points about 'make check-lit':
>  1. It runs the unittests as well, there is no separate 'make
> unittests' step. If you like, there is also a 'make check-all' which
> will also run the Clang tests at the same time if it happens to be
> checked out in the standard location (tools/clang).

Daniel,

This is really nice :)
-
Devang