Flush stdout before running subprocesses

Avoids interleaving of output

Author: ahoppen

Utilities/build-script-helper.py

@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ def check_call(cmd: List[str], additional_env: Dict[str, str] = {}, verbose: boo
     if verbose:
         print_cmd(cmd=cmd, additional_env=additional_env)
 
+    sys.stdout.flush()
+    sys.stderr.flush()
     subprocess.check_call(cmd, env=env_with_additional_env(additional_env), stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
 
 
@@ -51,6 +53,8 @@ def check_output(cmd: List[str], additional_env: Dict[str, str] = {}, capture_st
         stderr = subprocess.STDOUT
     else:
         stderr = subprocess.DEVNULL
+    sys.stdout.flush()
+    sys.stderr.flush()
     return subprocess.check_output(cmd, env=env_with_additional_env(additional_env), stderr=stderr, encoding='utf-8')
 
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -155,7 +159,6 @@ def run_tests(swift_exec: str, args: argparse.Namespace) -> None:
         check_call(cmd + ['--parallel'], additional_env=additional_env, verbose=args.verbose)
     except:
         print('--- Running tests in parallel failed. Re-running tests serially to capture more actionable output.')
-        sys.stdout.flush()
         check_call(cmd, additional_env=additional_env, verbose=args.verbose)
         # Return with non-zero exit code even if serial test execution succeeds.
         raise SystemExit(1)