[AIX] fix unsupported diff flag on AIX (-strip-trailing-cr)

[madanial0]

#119666 adds the -strip-trailing-cr flag to diff which is not supported on AIX switch to use the python implementation of diff instead

[llvmbot]

@llvm/pr-subscribers-clang-format

Author: Mark Danial (madanial0)

Changes

#119666 adds the -strip-trailing-cr flag to diff which is not supported on AIX switch to use the python implementation of diff instead

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Full diff: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/120276.diff

1 Files Affected:

• (modified) clang/test/Format/lit.local.cfg (+8)

diff --git a/clang/test/Format/lit.local.cfg b/clang/test/Format/lit.local.cfg
index 8acf02725d701b..b060c79226cbda 100644
--- a/clang/test/Format/lit.local.cfg
+++ b/clang/test/Format/lit.local.cfg
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+import platform
+import lit.formats
+
 # Suffixes supported by clang-format.
 config.suffixes = [
     ".c",
@@ -19,3 +22,8 @@ config.suffixes = [
     ".td",
     ".test"
 ]
+
+# AIX 'diff' command doesn't support --strip-trailing-cr, but the internal
+# python implementation does, so use that for cross platform compatibility
+if platform.system() == "AIX":
+    config.test_format = lit.formats.ShTest()

[w2yehia]

LGTM

[abhina-sree]

LGTM

[owenca]

Why not for all platforms? cc @boomanaiden154