On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 11:54:12 +0200, Pavel Hrdina wrote:
With autoconf this option controlled if the test suite is compiled
by
default or not with the fact that it will be compiled later when
running `make check`.
With meson it is not possible to compile it later when running
`ninja test` as it will be always compiled if referenced by `test()`
function in meson.build files. Because of that enable the test suite
be default.
Enabling it only when compiling from git makes the test suite disabled
for `ninja dist` command which builds the code from non-git location.
Since that command is closest equivalent of `make distcheck` which runs
the test suite.
The only drawback from the autoconf state is that users compiling
libvirt from tarball will compile the test suite as well even though
they will not run it in most cases.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina(a)redhat.com>
---
configure.ac | 17 -----------------
meson.build | 5 +++++
meson_options.txt | 1 +
3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/meson_options.txt b/meson_options.txt
index 2281faec429..6973b9f6587 100644
--- a/meson_options.txt
+++ b/meson_options.txt
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@ option('packager', type: 'string', value: '',
description: 'Extra packager name'
option('packager_version', type: 'string', value: '',
description: 'Extra packager version')
option('system', type: 'boolean', value: false, description: 'Set
install paths to system ones')
option('runstatedir', type: 'string', value: '', description:
'State directory for temporary sockets, pid files, etc')
+option('test_suite', type: 'boolean', value: true, description:
'Whether to enable and build test suite by default')
Given that you've said that the testsuite is always build, the
description is misleadingly noting that it can be avoided.