[LLVMdev] Disable LNT tests individually

[Daniel Dunbar]

On Mar 15, 2013, at 7:57, Renato Golin <renato.golin at linaro.org> wrote:

> Hi Daniel, David,
>
> Is there any way of disabling some individual tests on specific architectures?
>
> Zero cost exception handling on ARM is known to be broken and there isn't anyone I know working on it with high priority, so it's likely to be that way for a long time.
>
> For that reason, I'd like to disable them on ARM, so that I can get a green LNT, making it easier to spot regressions.
>
> There are other failures, but I'd rather fix them than disable. It's only on this case, because it's a low priority feature AND it's broken, that I'd suggest temporarily disabling the test.
>
> Makes sense? Is it possible?

Hi Renato,

Yes, makes sense and is usually possibly.

I don't have a reference offhand but the way other tests do this is
just filter the test out of the targets based on the target, etc. If
you grep for filter-out in the Makefiles there should be a couple of
examples.

 - Daniel

>
> cheers,
> --renato