Hi, On 2022-10-27 14:15:32 -0700, Jacob Champion wrote: > On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 1:04 AM John Naylor > <john.nay...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: > > This does not work for me in a fresh install until running > > > > meson test --suite setup > > > > In fact, we see in > > > > https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Meson > > > > meson test --suite setup --suite main > > (Is there a way to declare a dependency on the setup suite in Meson, > so that we don't have to specify it manually? I was bitten by this > recently; if you make a code change and forget to run setup, it'll > recompile locally but then skip reinstallation, giving false test > results.)
Tests can have dependencies, and they're correctly built. The problem however is that, for historical reasons if I understand correctly, dependencies of tests are automatically included in the default 'all' target. Which means if you just type in 'ninja', it'd automatically create the test installation - which is probably not what we want, given that that's not a fast step on some platforms. Greetings, Andres Freund
