[LLVMdev] tblgen internals

[Garrison Venn]

Ok, I was wondering why make check-all was using llvm-gcc for clang tests. 

Thanks for the pointer, I got to learn about: Release+Asserts/bin/llvm-lit test/TableGen
which is really cool.

Garrison

On Dec 10, 2010, at 13:52, Bob Wilson wrote:

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> On Dec 10, 2010, at 10:17 AM, Garrison Venn wrote:
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>> Ok thanks I'll try that. I was trying to avoid re-building llvm-gcc.
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> You don't need llvm-gcc to run most of the "make check" tests.  The FrontEnd tests use it, but that's all.  If you run configure with "--without-llvmgcc --without-llvmgxx", then it shouldn't use llvm-gcc at all.
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>> Garrison
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>> On Dec 10, 2010, at 12:12, Bob Wilson wrote:
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>>> On Dec 10, 2010, at 6:11 AM, Garrison Venn wrote:
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>>>> Hey Chris,
>>>> 
>>>> Ok, so I'm working on creating this trivial patch, for starters, but I'm trying to identify
>>>> a controlled unit test for tblgen. So all of the following test tblgen to various extents:
>>>> 
>>>> 1) make
>>>> 2) make unittests
>>>> 3) make // with clang
>>>> 
>>>> and
>>>> 
>>>> 4) make check // which I'm avoiding
>>> 
>>> Why are you avoiding it?  That's where most of the TableGen tests are (in tests/TableGen).  If you only want to run the TableGen tests, you can do:
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>>> make TESTSUITE=TableGen check
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