Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson - v12

Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>

From: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>, samay sharma <smilingsamay@gmail.com>, Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Date: 2022-11-14T23:16:46Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 01:37:41PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> > You're running tap tests via a python script.  There's no problem with
> > that, but it's different from what's done by the existing makefiles.
> > I was able to remove the python indirection - maybe that's better to
> > talk about on the CI thread?  That moves some setup for TAP tests
> > (TESTDIR, PATH, cd) from Makefile into the existing perl, which means
> > less duplication.
> 
> I'm doubtful it's worth removing. You'd need to move removing the files from
> the last run into both pg_regress and the tap test infrastructure. And I do
> think it's nice to afterwards have markers which tests failed, so we can only
> collect their logs.

Are you planning on putting something in place to remove (or allow
removing) logs for successful tests ?  Is that primarily for cirrus, or
buildfarm or ??

It is wasteful to upload thousdands of logfiles to show a single
failure.  That would make our cirrus tasks faster - compressing and
uploading the logs takes over a minute.

It's also a lot friendlier to show fewer than 8 pages of test folders to
search through to find the one that failed.

-- 
Justin



Commits

  1. meson: Add 'running' test setup, as a replacement for installcheck

  2. meson: Add support for building with precompiled headers

  3. windows: Adjust FD_SETSIZE via commandline define

  4. meson: docs: Add xml{lint,proc} wrapper to collect dependencies

  5. meson: ecpg: Split definition of static and shared libraries

  6. windows: Set UMDF_USING_NTSTATUS globally, include ntstatus.h

  7. ci: Add hint about downloadable logs to README

  8. meson: Set up absolute rpaths to libdir

  9. meson: Include CFLAGS/c_args in summary and pg_config output

  10. windows: remove date from version number in win32ver.rc

  11. meson: Add initial version of meson based build system

  12. ci: windows: set error mode to not include SEM_NOGPFAULTERRORBOX

  13. Refactor PG_TEST_EXTRA logic in autoconf build

  14. Split TESTDIR into TESTLOGDIR and TESTDATADIR

  15. Don't hardcode tmp_check/ as test directory for tap tests

  16. Extend gendef.pl in preparation for meson

  17. Include c.h instead of postgres.h in src/port/*p{read,write}*.c

  18. Remove DLLTOOL, DLLWRAP from configure / Makefile.global.in

  19. Run xmllint validation only once

  20. Bump minimum Perl version to 5.14

  21. Move gramparse.h to src/backend/parser

  22. Run perltidy over Catalog.pm

  23. Parse catalog .dat files as a whole when compiling the backend

  24. Build all Flex files standalone

  25. Move private declarations shared between guc.c and guc-file.l to new header

  26. Preparatory refactoring for compiling guc-file.c standalone

  27. Move darwin sysroot determination into separate file

  28. Fix MSVC warning in compat_informix/rnull.pgc

  29. solaris: Use versioning scripts instead of -Bsymbolic

  30. Change shared library installation naming on macOS

  31. regress: allow to specify directory containing expected files, for ecpg

  32. Don't add HAVE_LDAP_H HAVE_WINLDAP_H to pg_config.h

  33. Refactor dtrace postprocessing make rules

  34. Add output directory option to gen_node_support.pl

  35. Add output directory argument to generate-unicode_norm_table.pl

  36. Add output file argument to generate-errcodes.pl

  37. Add output path arg in generate-lwlocknames.pl

  38. Move snowball_create.sql creation into perl file

  39. ecpg: Output dir, source dir, stamp file argument for preproc/*.pl

  40. psql: Output dir and dependency generation for sql_help

  41. Deal with paths containing \ and spaces in basebackup_to_shell tests

  42. Remove LLVM_CONFIG from Makefile.global.in

  43. Make update-unicode target work in vpath builds

  44. Refactor DLSUFFIX handling

  45. ldap tests: Add paths for openbsd.

  46. ldap tests: Don't run on unsupported operating systems.

  47. Remove check for accept() argument types

  48. Move our p{read,write}v replacements into their own files.

  49. Adjust yywrap macro for non-reentrant scanners for MSVC.

  50. Remove any -arch switches given in ExtUtils::Embed's ldopts from our

  51. Change PL/Perl and Pg interface build to use configured compiler and

  52. Apparently, on some systems, ExtUtils::Embed and MakeMaker are slightly