Re: Documentation for building with meson

On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 4:03 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> Tests can have dependencies, and they're correctly built. The problem however
> is that, for historical reasons if I understand correctly, dependencies of
> tests are automatically included in the default 'all' target. Which means if
> you just type in 'ninja', it'd automatically create the test installation -
> which is probably not what we want, given that that's not a fast step on some
> platforms.

And I see that between-suite dependencies were rejected as a feature
[1]. Ah well, `--suite setup` is not so bad once you learn it.

Thanks!
--Jacob

[1] https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/2740