Commit 80a2ddf6 authored by Louis Dionne's avatar Louis Dionne
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[libc++] Add an alternative Lit test format

This new test format is simpler and more flexible. It creates Lit ShTests
on the fly that reuse existing substitutions (like %{cxx}) instead of
having complex logic in Python to run the tests. This has the benefit
that virtually no coding is required to customize how the test suite is
run -- one can achieve pretty much anything by defining the appropriate
substitutions in a simple lit.cfg file.

For example, in order to run the tests on an embedded device after
building with a specific SDK, one can set the %{cxx} and %{compile_flags}
substitutions to use that SDK, and the %{exec} substitution to the ssh.py
script currently used for .sh.cpp tests with a remote executor. Dealing with
the SSHExecutor becomes unnecessary, since all tests are treated like ShTests.

As a side effect of this design, configuration files for the test
suite can be as simple as:

	config.substitutions.append(('%{cxx}', '<path-to-compiler>'))
	config.substitutions.append(('%{compile_flags}'...
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