Re: buildfarm + meson

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-03-09T20:25:00Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2023-03-09 14:47:36 -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> . There appears to be some mismatch in database names (e.g.
>> regression_dblink vs contrib_regression_dblink). That's going to cause some
>> issues with the module that adjusts things for cross version upgrade.

> I guess we can try to do something about that, but the make situation is
> overly complicated. I don't really want to emulate having randomly differing
> database names just because a test is in contrib/ rather than src/.

We could talk about adjusting the behavior on the make side instead,
perhaps, but something needs to be done there eventually.

Having said that, I'm not sure that the first meson-capable buildfarm
version needs to support cross-version-upgrade testing.

			regards, tom lane



Commits

  1. meson: fix header path of ossp-uuid

  2. meson: Add target for installing test files & improve install_test_files

  3. meson: don't require 'touch' binary, make use of 'cp' optional