Thanks.  I'll follow up next week after I do some investigation

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 1:25 PM Enrico Granata <egran...@apple.com> wrote:

> 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>
> wrote:
>
>> On Oct 29, 2015, at 11:31 PM, Zachary Turner <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> 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> 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
>>> 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
>>>
>>> ==============================================================================
>>> --- 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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