On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 09:34:25PM +0000, Ramsay Jones wrote: > > > On 24/10/2024 13:39, Patrick Steinhardt wrote: > > Hi, > > > > this is the fourth version of my patch series that modernizes our build > > system. It refactors various parts of it to make it possible to perform > > out-of-tree builds in theory and then wires up Meson. > > As Promised, I have tested this version on Linux and Cygwin (not full test > on patches 1-18). When built on top of fd3785337b (The third batch) with > the two branches merged (as indicated below) Linux (build+test) and cygwin > (just build) work as expected. Thanks! > > - I've dropped the target names for `custom_target()` invocations. > > Those are auto-derived from the first output anyway, so they only > > add unnecessary noise. > > > > - The last patch is a compatibility patch for "seen". There are a > > couple of topics that interact with this series, and I didn't want > > to make all of them a strict dependency. So I've decided to just > > create a fixup-style commit that does the necessary changes in order > > to work with "seen". Like this, you can test without "seen" by > > simply dropping that last commit, and you can test with "seen" by > > merging it into this topic. > > I couldn't try this patch because (at the time) the 'seen' branch > didn't build. :( Okay. I'll adapt the next version accordingly. > On cygwin, the result looks like: > > $ tail -11 meson-logs/testlog.txt > Summary of Failures: > > 23/1035 t-reftable-stack TIMEOUT 30.26s killed by signal 15 SIGTERM > 114/1035 t1017-cat-file-remote-object-info FAIL 0.13s exit status 127 > > Ok: 1033 > Expected Fail: 0 > Fail: 1 > Unexpected Pass: 0 > Skipped: 0 > Timeout: 1 > $ > > The t-reftable-stack unit test took just over 75s on the v2.27.0 test run. > I haven't looked into it yet, but plenty of other tests run for longer than > the 30s, so I don't know why that test seems to be different. Meson has a default timeout of 30 seconds for tests. I only removed that timeout for our shell scripts, but didn't for the unit tests. I'll fix that in the next version. > Also, it is worth noting that the test ran for 2hr50min. Usually I have to > wait 6hr approx. for 'make test' to finish because I don't like to use any > '-j' parameters (You can't do anything else on the machine while it is > cooking the cpu!). :) You probably know, but you can of course also pick the number of CPU cores to run tests on with Meson: `meson test -j1`. Patrick