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Nope. An easy solution (both here and for clang) is for ninja to set an environment variable (`NINJA_ISATTY`?), and add some magic to LLVM's "isatty" to return true if it sees it. (for matters of correctness, it would actually be best if ninja sets the environment variable only when *it's* stdout/stderr isatty (also taking into account this environment variable), so that

I'm just wondering if anyone's using Ninja (which buffers output from subcommands, such as lit/FileCheck/etc) & has thought about/found a way to force FileCheck to use colour in spite of Ninja's buffering. Thanks, - David

On further thought, I assume this issue actually hits everyone - it's not just Ninja getting in the way, but lit as well. (which also means we'd probably need to fix both Ninja and lit to resolve this issue - but everyone should at least be a little invested in fixing lit). On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 12:18 AM, Sean Silva <silvas at purdue.edu> wrote: > Nope. An easy solution (both