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

llvm-svn: 251678

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lldb/packages/Python/lldbsuite/test/dotest.py b/lldb/packages/Python/lldbsuite/test/dotest.py
index 7c08bac48db..0c569bc81e8 100644
--- a/lldb/packages/Python/lldbsuite/test/dotest.py
+++ b/lldb/packages/Python/lldbsuite/test/dotest.py
@@ -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