Re: buildfarm + meson

Hi,

On 2023-02-22 18:23:44 -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Here's a progress report on adapting the buildfarm client to meson
>
> There is a development branch where I'm working on the changes. They can be
> seen here:
>
> <https://github.com/PGBuildFarm/client-code/compare/main...dev/meson>
>
> On my Linux box (Fedora 37, where crake runs) I can get a complete run.

Nice!

> There is work to do to make sure we pick up the right log files, and maybe
> adjust a module or two. I have adopted a design where instead of trying to
> know a lot about the testing regime the client needs to know a lot less.
> Instead, it gets meson to tell it the set of tests. I will probably work on
> enabling some sort of filter, but I think this makes things more
> future-proof. I have stuck with the design of making testing fairly
> fine-grained, so each suite runs separately.

I don't understand why you'd want to run each suite separately. Serially
executing the test takes way longer than doing so in parallel. Why would we
want to enforce that?

Particularly because with meson the tests log files and the failed tests can
directly be correlated? And it should be easy to figure out which log files
need to be kept, you can just skip the directories in testrun/ that contain
test.success.

> On a Windows instance, fairly similar to what's running drongo, I can get a
> successful build with meson+VS2019, but I'm getting an error in the
> regression tests, which don't like setting lc_time to 'de_DE'. Not sure
> what's going on there.

Huh, that's odd.

> meson apparently wants touch and cp installed, although I can't see why at
> first glance. For Windows I just copied them into the path from an msys2
> installation.

Those should probably be fixed.

Greetings,

Andres Freund