Re: Minor meson gripe

On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 12:56 PM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> > * Isn't it confusing that we have a suite by that name, given that we
> > also need to use the unrelated --setup flag for some nearby testing
> > recipes?
>
> Hm. I don't find it particularly confusing, but I don't think I'm a good judge
> of that, too close.

> It'll work, but only if you have run setup before. And it'll not use changed C
> code.

I see. It's not that confusing on its own, but it does cause confusion
once you consider how things fit together. Suppose I want to do the
equivalent of running the amcheck tests -- the tests that run when
"make check" runs from contrib/amcheck with an autoconf build. That
looks like this with our current meson workflow:

meson test -v --suite setup --suite amcheck

Now consider what I have to run to get the equivalent of a "make
installcheck" run from the contrib/amcheck directory:

meson test -v --setup running --suite amcheck-running

Notice that I have to specify "--suite setup" in the first example,
whereas I have to specify "--setup running" in the second example
instead -- at the same point in. Also notice the rest of the details
almost match. This makes it quite natural to wonder if "--suite setup"
is related to "--setup running" in some way, which is not the case at
all. They're two wholly unrelated concepts.

Why not change the suite name to tmp_install? That immediately reminds
me of what's really going on here, since I'm used to seeing that
directory name. And it clashes with "--suite setup" in a way that
seems useful.

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Peter Geoghegan