Re: meson: Optionally disable installation of test modules

On 01.02.23 13:41, Nazir Bilal Yavuz wrote:
> On 1/31/23 11:44, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> On 30.01.23 18:42, Andres Freund wrote:
>>> Bilal, with a bit of help by me, worked on an alternative approach to
>>> this. It's a lot more verbose in the initial change, but wouldn't
>>> increase the
>>> amount of work/lines for new test modules. The main advantage is that we
>>> wouldn't have disable the modules by default, which I think would be
>>> quite
>>> likely to result in plenty people not running the tests.
>>>
>>> Sending a link instead of attaching, in case you already registered a
>>> cfbot entry:
>>> https://github.com/anarazel/postgres/commit/d1d192a860da39af9aa63d7edf643eed0eeee7c4
>>>
>>> Probably worth adding an install-test-modules target for manual use.
>>
>> Looks like a good idea.  I'm happy to proceed along that line.
>
> I am adding a patch of an alternative approach. Also, I updated the
> commit at the link by adding regress_module, autoinc_regress and
> refint_regress to the test_install_libs.

If you feel that your patch is ready, please add it to the commit fest.
I look forward to reviewing it.