A year or so ago, I re-wrote most of the lit infrastructure in LLVM so
that it wasn't so boilerplate-y. I added lots of common helper type
stuff, simplifed usage patterns, and made the code more elegant and
maintainable.
We migrated to this in LLVM, clang, and lld's lit files, but not in
LLDBs. This started to bite me recently, as the 4 most recent times I
tried to run the lit test suite in LLDB on a fresh checkout the first
thing that would happen is that python would just start crashing with
unhelpful backtraces and I would have to spend time investigating.
You can reproduce this today by doing a fresh cmake generation, doing
ninja lldb and then python bin/llvm-lit.py -sv ~/lldb/lit/SymbolFile at
which point you'll get a segfault that tells you nothing about what your
problem is.
I started trying to fix the issues with bandaids, but it became clear
that the proper solution was to just bring in the work I did in the rest
of the projects. The side benefit of this is that the lit configuration
files become much cleaner and more understandable as a result.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D54009
llvm-svn: 346008
Zachary Turner