Re: List TAP test files in makefiles

Hi,

On 2025-08-23 10:17:59 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> > On 2025-08-23 11:57:37 +0500, Andrey Borodin wrote:
> >> What is the downside of the approach where meson uses t/*.pl wildcard?
> 
> > In meson you can't do wildcards at "configure" time, since wildcards do not
> > allow reliable detection of when re-configure is needed.
> 
> But ... what "re-configuration" is needed when adding a new test file?

In meson, not autoconf/make. The test runner doesn't parse the meson.build
files, that's done once when running configure. After that there's a table of
tests that need to be run that gets used when you type ninja/meson test.


> We should be striving to make the meson system as easy to use as
> autoconf/make, not trying to attain parity by making the latter experience
> worse.

FWIW, I find the autoconf/make test run experience completely unusable. It
literally is made me embark on getting away from it. I don't understand how
people stand it.

Greetings,

Andres Freund