Re: meson: Optionally disable installation of test modules

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
To: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-02-08T10:30:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
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.




Commits

  1. meson: Prevent installation of test files during main install