Hi, On 2022-09-24 17:33:49 -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote: > On Sat, Sep 24, 2022 at 5:13 PM Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > > > One more question about this, that wasn't covered by the Wiki page: is > > > there some equivalent to "make installcheck" with meson builds? > > > > Not yet. Nothing impossible, just not done yet. Partially because > > installcheck > > is so poorly defined (run against an already running server for pg_regress > > vs > > using "system" installed binaries for tap tests). > > Got it. I can work around that by just having an old autoconf-based > vpath build directory. I'll need to do this when I run Valgrind. > > My workaround would be annoying if I needed to run "installcheck" > anywhere near as frequently as I run "make check-world". But that > isn't the case. meson delivers a significant improvement in the metric > that really matters to me, so I can't really complain.
My gut feeling is that we should use this opportunity to split 'installcheck' into two. "test a running server" and "test installed binaries". I think the cleanest way to do this with meson would be to utilize meson tests's "setups". $ meson test --setup 'running-server' would run all [selected] tests compatible with running against a running server. And $ meson test --setup 'installed' would test installed binaries. Greetings, Andres Freund
