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authorDaniel Dunbar <daniel@zuster.org>2013-08-09 19:39:48 +0000
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[docs] Update TestingGuide's note on how to run with Valgrind.
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@@ -120,12 +120,14 @@ can run the LLVM and Clang tests simultaneously using:
% make check-all
-To run the tests with Valgrind (Memcheck by default), just append
-``VG=1`` to the commands above, e.g.:
+To run the tests with Valgrind (Memcheck by default), use the ``LIT_ARGS`` make
+variable to pass the required options to lit. For example, you can use:
.. code-block:: bash
- % make check VG=1
+ % make check LIT_ARGS="-v --vg --vg-leak"
+
+to enable testing with valgrind and with leak checking enabled.
To run individual tests or subsets of tests, you can use the ``llvm-lit``
script which is built as part of LLVM. For example, to run the