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authorEli Friedman <eli.friedman@gmail.com>2012-04-16 05:04:45 +0000
committerEli Friedman <eli.friedman@gmail.com>2012-04-16 05:04:45 +0000
commit275a8505420733a9e4c662289f36522a1dabaa51 (patch)
treec14a6e825b2b92c4a283b2066656f52ce267443d
parenta31698842e9893559d58a7bf1a987f2ae90bea0b (diff)
Add note to hacking.html that running the test harness directly from the command-line requires making sure the relevant files are generated first. Patch by Matt Fowles, with some minor modifications.
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<h3 id="testingCommands">Testing on the Command Line</h3>
<!--=====================================================================-->
- <p>To run all the tests from the command line, execute a command like
- the following:</p>
+ <p>If you want more control over how the tests are run, it may
+ be convenient to run the test harness on the command-line directly. Before
+ running tests from the command line, you will need to ensure that
+ <tt>lit.site.cfg</tt> files have been created for your build. You can do
+ this by running the tests as described in the previous sections. Once the
+ tests have started running, you can stop them with control+C, as the
+ files are generated before running any tests.</p>
+
+ <p>Once that is done, to run all the tests from the command line,
+ execute a command like the following:</p>
<pre>
python (path to llvm)\llvm\utils\lit\lit.py -sv