Re: [OAuth] Missing dependency on oauth_validator test

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Jacob Champion <jacob(dot)champion(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: "Jonathan Gonzalez V(dot)" <jonathan(dot)abdiel(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [OAuth] Missing dependency on oauth_validator test
Date: 2026-01-27 22:39:57
Message-ID: 7upikxtheq6ffhusabmdcsuj427nigzy66cllfqe2njqkc6xxo@j3ibac2lg5y2
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Hi,

On 2026-01-27 12:17:21 -0800, Jacob Champion wrote:
> Andres, do you know of any way we could surface these missing deps
> with only the "standard" meson/ninja invocations?

I don't see a realistic magic solution here, unfortunately.

> The only idea I had was to not build the test executables by default, but I
> think that trades a small problem (we occasionally hit a build-time
> dependency bug) for a big one (devs fail to notice that a test executable
> doesn't compile).

I was thinking that we ought to do that, just to make the compile-hack loop a
bit shorter. If we then run the tests in some CI tasks after cleaning the
build tree, it should find most of the omissions.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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