This patch and D154984 were discussed in https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-improving-lits-debug-output/72839.
Motivation
D154984 removes the "Script:" section that lit prints along with a test's output, and it makes -v and -a imply -vv. For example, after D154984, the "Script:" section below is never shown, but -v is enough to produce the execution trace following it:
Script: -- : 'RUN: at line 1'; echo hello | FileCheck bogus.txt && echo success -- Exit Code: 2 Command Output (stdout): -- $ ":" "RUN: at line 1" $ "echo" "hello" # command output: hello $ "FileCheck" "bogus.txt" # command stderr: Could not open check file 'bogus.txt': No such file or directory error: command failed with exit status: 2 --
In the D154984 review, some reviewers point out that they have been using the "Script:" section for copying and pasting a test's shell commands to a terminal window. The shell commands as printed in the execution trace can be harder to copy and paste for the following reasons:
- They drop redirections and break apart RUN lines at &&, |, etc.
- They add $ at the start of every command, which makes it hard to copy and paste multiple commands in bulk.
- Command stdout, stderr, etc. are interleaved with the commands and are not clearly delineated.
- They don't always use proper shell quoting. Instead, they blindly enclose all command-line arguments in double quotes.
Changes
D154984 plus this patch converts the above example into:
Exit Code: 2 Command Output (stdout): -- # RUN: at line 1 echo hello | FileCheck bogus-file.txt && echo success # executed command: echo hello # .---command stdout------------ # | hello # `----------------------------- # executed command: FileCheck bogus-file.txt # .---command stderr------------ # | Could not open check file 'bogus-file.txt': No such file or directory # `----------------------------- # error: command failed with exit status: 2 --
Thus, this patch addresses the above issues as follows:
- The entire execution trace can be copied and pasted in bulk to a terminal for correct execution of the RUN lines, which are printed intact as they appeared in the original RUN lines except lit substitutions are expanded. Everything else in the execution trace appears in shell comments so it has no effect in a terminal.
- Each of the RUN line's commands is repeated (in shell comments) as it executes to show (1) that the command actually executed (e.g., echo success above didn't) and (2) what stdout, stderr, non-zero exit status, and output files are associated with the command, if any. Shell quoting in the command is now correct and minimal but is not necessarily the original shell quoting from the RUN line.
- The start and end of the contents of stdout, stderr, or an output file is now delineated clearly in the trace.
To help produce some of the above output, this patch extends lit's internal shell with a built-in @echo command. It's like echo except lit suppresses the normal execution trace for @echo and just prints its stdout directly. For now, @echo isn't documented for use in lit tests.
Without this patch, libcxx's custom lit test format tries to parse the stdout from lit.TestRunner.executeScriptInternal (which runs lit's internal shell) to extract the stdout and stderr produced by shell commands, and that parse no longer works after the above changes. This patch makes a small adjustment to lit.TestRunner.executeScriptInternal so libcxx can just request stdout and stderr without an execution trace.
(As a minor drive-by fix that came up in testing: lit's internal not command now always produces a numeric exit status and never True.)
Caveat
This patch only makes the above changes for lit's internal shell. In most cases, we do not know how to force external shells (e.g., bash, sh, window's cmd) to produce execution traces in the manner we want.
To configure a test suite to use lit's internal shell (which is usually better for test portability than external shells anyway), add this to the test suite's lit.cfg or other configuration file:
config.test_format = lit.formats.ShTest(execute_external=False)