Re: enable certain TAP tests for MSVC builds

On Sun, Dec 05, 2021 at 06:00:08PM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> On 12/5/21 14:47, Noah Misch wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 05, 2021 at 11:57:31AM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >> Certain TAP tests rely on settings that the Make files provide for them.
> >> However vcregress.pl doesn't provide those settings. This patch remedies
> >> that, and I propose to apply it shortly (when we have a fix for the SSL
> >> tests that I will write about separately) and backpatch it appropriately.
> >> --- a/src/tools/msvc/vcregress.pl
> >> +++ b/src/tools/msvc/vcregress.pl
> >> @@ -59,6 +59,12 @@ copy("$Config/autoinc/autoinc.dll", "src/test/regress");
> >> copy("$Config/regress/regress.dll", "src/test/regress");
> >> copy("$Config/dummy_seclabel/dummy_seclabel.dll", "src/test/regress");
> >>
> >> +# Settings used by TAP tests
> >> +$ENV{with_ssl} = $config->{openssl} ? 'openssl' : 'no';
> >> +$ENV{with_ldap} = $config->{ldap} ? 'yes' : 'no';
> >> +$ENV{with_icu} = $config->{icu} ? 'yes' : 'no';
> >> +$ENV{with_gssapi} = $config->{gss} ? 'yes' : 'no';
> > That's appropriate. There are more variables to cover:
> >
> > $ git grep -n ^export ':(glob)**/Makefile'
> > src/bin/pg_basebackup/Makefile:22:export LZ4
> > src/bin/pg_basebackup/Makefile:23:export TAR
> > src/bin/pg_basebackup/Makefile:27:export GZIP_PROGRAM=$(GZIP)
> > src/bin/psql/Makefile:20:export with_readline
> > src/test/kerberos/Makefile:16:export with_gssapi with_krb_srvnam
> > src/test/ldap/Makefile:16:export with_ldap
> > src/test/modules/ssl_passphrase_callback/Makefile:3:export with_ssl
> > src/test/recovery/Makefile:20:export REGRESS_SHLIB
> > src/test/ssl/Makefile:18:export with_ssl
> > src/test/subscription/Makefile:18:export with_icu
>
> LZ4/TAR/GZIP_PROGAM: It's not clear what these should be set to. The TAP
> tests skip tests that use them if they are not set.

Could add config.pl entries for those. Preventing those skips on Windows may
or may not be worth making config.pl readers think about them.

> with_readline: we don't build with readline on Windows, period. I guess
> we could just set it to "no".

> with_krb_srvnam: the default is "postgres", we could just set it to that
> I guess.

Works for me.