I think what I was doing is be in lldb/test and do

$ ./dotest.py ../packages/python/lldbsuite/functionalities/completion

> On Oct 30, 2015, at 12:22 PM, Zachary Turner <ztur...@google.com> wrote:
> 
> Can you give me a command line which will reproduce the original problem?  
> Because I ran through the entire test suite and nothing failed, so I want to 
> make sure we're doing the same thing.  I'm still a little confused about how 
> this happens, but I plan to look into it when I'm back on Monday and see if I 
> can understand it better to identify a better fix.
> 
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 11:58 AM Enrico Granata <egran...@apple.com 
> <mailto:egran...@apple.com>> wrote:
>> On Oct 29, 2015, at 11:31 PM, Zachary Turner <ztur...@google.com 
>> <mailto:ztur...@google.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Wow.  That's a weird problem.  Thanks for finding it!  
>> 
>> Would it work if we move the definition of the `lldbtest_config` class into 
>> lldbsuite/test/__init__.py?  This way the configuration should be part of 
>> the global package state of the lldbsuite.test package, which all the tests 
>> are already members of the same package, so they wouldn't even need to 
>> import anything (I think).
>> 
> 
> I think the problem is exactly that we want lldbtest_config to be *global* 
> state and not package local state. 
> Honestly, I think if we are not content with the fix as it stands, the right 
> way would be to change the way unittest2 imports test cases as to use the 
> package-level global scope instead of the global global state as it is now.
> 
>> On Oct 30, 2015, at 8:32 AM, Zachary Turner <ztur...@google.com 
>> <mailto:ztur...@google.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> I'm also still a little confused why this worked before my patch.  How is 
>> unittest2 importing the individual tests in a way that behaves differently 
>> when dotest is a package (now) versus a standalone script (before)?
>> 
> 
> 
> That is a good question. One to which “because Python” is the only answer I 
> can think of. I suspect scripts live at the global scope anyway, so we were 
> just getting lucky with those imports making it through correctly.
> 
>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 6:12 PM Enrico Granata via lldb-commits 
>> <lldb-commits@lists.llvm.org <mailto:lldb-commits@lists.llvm.org>> wrote:
>> Author: enrico
>> Date: Thu Oct 29 20:09:54 2015
>> New Revision: 251678
>> 
>> URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=251678&view=rev 
>> <http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=251678&view=rev>
>> Log:
>> Some test cases that need the lldbExec path were failing because lldbExec 
>> was turning out to be None even though it was being validly set by dotest.py
>> 
>> It turns out that lldbtest_config was being imported locally to 
>> "lldbsuite.test" instead of globally, so when the test cases got 
>> individually brought by a global import via __import__ by unittest2, they 
>> did not see the lldbtest_config import, and ended up importing a new 
>> separate copy of it, with lldbExec unset
>> 
>> This is a simple hackaround that brings lldbtest_config to global visibility 
>> and makes sure the configuration data is correctly shared
>> 
>> 
>> Modified:
>>     lldb/trunk/packages/Python/lldbsuite/test/dotest.py
>> 
>> Modified: lldb/trunk/packages/Python/lldbsuite/test/dotest.py
>> URL: 
>> http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/lldb/trunk/packages/Python/lldbsuite/test/dotest.py?rev=251678&r1=251677&r2=251678&view=diff
>>  
>> <http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/lldb/trunk/packages/Python/lldbsuite/test/dotest.py?rev=251678&r1=251677&r2=251678&view=diff>
>> ==============================================================================
>> --- lldb/trunk/packages/Python/lldbsuite/test/dotest.py (original)
>> +++ lldb/trunk/packages/Python/lldbsuite/test/dotest.py Thu Oct 29 20:09:54 
>> 2015
>> @@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ for available options.
>>  """
>> 
>>  from __future__ import print_function
>> +# this module needs to have global visibility, otherwise test cases
>> +# will import it anew in their local namespace, essentially losing access
>> +# to all the configuration data
>> +globals()['lldbtest_config'] = __import__('lldbtest_config')
>> 
>>  import use_lldb_suite
>> 
>> @@ -42,7 +46,6 @@ import test_results
>>  from test_results import EventBuilder
>>  import inspect
>>  import unittest2
>> -import lldbtest_config
>>  import test_categories
>> 
>>  import six
>> 
>> 
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> 
> 
> Thanks,
> - Enrico
> 📩 egranata@.com ☎️ 27683
> 


Thanks,
- Enrico
📩 egranata@.com ☎️ 27683

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