[llvm-dev] Different ways of running lit

[Matthias Braun via llvm-dev]

Maybe tell us what you want to change?

Indeed lit is used in various ways outside of llvm.

libcxx and the llvm test-suite both have a bigger amount of custom python code for their lit tests and break easily when changing lit.

- Matthias

> On Sep 10, 2017, at 10:32 PM, Zachary Turner via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> 
> What are all the different ways people run lit?  I'm doing some refactoring and want to make sure I have all the based covered.  Obviously you can use check-llvm.  And you can also run llvm-lit.py in your bin directory and point it to your source tree.
> 
> What else?  Both of the aforementioned methods require running cmake first, is there any use case where someone runs lit without having run cmake first?  Or anything else I'm not thinking of?
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