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2020-04-03DRTVWR-476: Facilitate debugging test programs with logging.Nat Goodspeed
On Mac, even if you run a test program with --debug or set LOGTEST=DEBUG, it won't log to stderr if you're filtering build output or running the build in an emacs compile buffer. This is because, on Mac, a viewer launched by mouse rather than from the command line is passed a stderr stream that ultimately gets logged to the system Console. The shouldLogToStderr() function is intended to avoid spamming the Console with the (voluminous) viewer log output. It tests whether stderr isatty() and, if not, suppresses calling LLError::logToStderr(). This makes debugging test programs using log output trickier than necessary. Change shouldLogToStderr() to permit logging when either stderr isatty() or is a pipe. The original intention is preserved in that empirically, a viewer launched by mouse is passed a stderr stream identified as a character device rather than as a pipe. Also introduce SetEnv, a class that facilitates setting (e.g.) LOGTEST=DEBUG for specific test programs without setting it for all test programs in the build. Using the constructor for a static object means you can set environment variables before main() is entered, which is important because it's the main() function in test.cpp that acts on the LOGTEST and LOGFAIL environment variables. These changes make it unnecessary to retain the temporary change in test.cpp to force LOGTEST to DEBUG.