Re: CI and test improvements

On Sat, Sep 10, 2022 at 03:05:42PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 02:28:02PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> > On 2022-08-28 12:10:29 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > > On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 09:07:52AM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> > > > > --- /dev/null
> > > > > +++ b/src/tools/ci/windows-compiler-warnings
> > > >
> > > > Wouldn't that be doable as something like
> > > > sh -c 'if test -s file; then cat file;exit 1; fi"
> > > > inside .cirrus.yml?
> > >
> > > I had written it inline in a couple ways, like
> > > - sh -exc 'f=msbuild.warn.log; if [ -s "$f" ]; then cat "$f"; exit 1; else exit 0; fi'
> > >
> > > but then separated it out as you suggested in
> > > 20220227010908(dot)vz2a7dmfzgwg742w(at)alap3(dot)anarazel(dot)de
> > >
> > > after I complained about cmd.exe requiring escaping for && and ||
> > > That makes writing any shell script a bit perilous and a separate script
> > > seems better.
> >
> > I remember that I suggested it - but note that the way I wrote above doesn't
> > have anything needing escaping.
>
> It doesn't require it, but that still gives the impression that it's
> normally possible to write one-liner shell scripts there, which is
> misleading/wrong, and the reason why I took your suggestion to use a
> separate script file.
>
> > Anyway, what do you think of the multiline split I suggested?
>
> Done, and sorted.

Rewrote this and rebased some of the other stuff on top of the meson
commit, for which I also include some new patches.