Add "-gmodules" support to the test suite.

This change adds the capability of building test inferiors
with the -gmodules flag to enable module debug info support.
Windows is excluded per @zturner.

Reviewers: granata.enrico, aprantl, zturner, labath

Subscribers: zturner, labath, lldb-commits

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19998

llvm-svn: 270848

1 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lldb/packages/Python/lldbsuite/support/gmodules.py b/lldb/packages/Python/lldbsuite/support/gmodules.py
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+++ b/lldb/packages/Python/lldbsuite/support/gmodules.py
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+from __future__ import absolute_import
+from __future__ import print_function
+
+# System modules
+import os
+import re
+
+
+GMODULES_SUPPORT_MAP = {}
+GMODULES_HELP_REGEX = re.compile(r"\s-gmodules\s")
+
+
+def is_compiler_clang_with_gmodules(compiler_path):
+    # Before computing the result, check if we already have it cached.
+    if compiler_path in GMODULES_SUPPORT_MAP:
+        return GMODULES_SUPPORT_MAP[compiler_path]
+
+    def _gmodules_supported_internal():
+        compiler = os.path.basename(compiler_path)
+        if "clang" not in compiler:
+            return False
+        else:
+            # Check the compiler help for the -gmodules option.
+            clang_help = os.popen("%s --help" % compiler_path).read()
+            return GMODULES_HELP_REGEX.search(clang_help, re.DOTALL) is not None
+
+    GMODULES_SUPPORT_MAP[compiler_path] = _gmodules_supported_internal()
+    return GMODULES_SUPPORT_MAP[compiler_path]
+
+