Re: [PATCH v2] devtools: add test script for meson builds

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

28/05/2018 15:20, Bruce Richardson:
> On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 12:26:24PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 28/05/2018 11:33, Bruce Richardson:
> > > On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 11:32:53AM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > > > 25/05/2018 17:18, Bruce Richardson:
> > > > > On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 04:51:58PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > > > > > +load_config () +{ +	reset_env +	. $(dirname $(readlink -e
> > > > > > $0))/load-devel-config +	MESON=${MESON:-meson} +}
> > > > > Why does this need to be done each time?
> > > > 
> > > > Because the config could be different for each build (see above).
> > > > 
> > > How would it be different, it's the same command called with the same
> > > environment each time?
> > 
> > No, the idea is to adapt the environment to the build target.  As an
> > example, the dependencies can be different for 32-bit and 64-bit.
> > 
> I would hope that dependency detection should solve that, but since you
> already have support for that in existing build script via environment
> vars, I have no objection to leveraging that in the meson scripts. Overall,
> though, I'd prefer to ensure that the detection works so that everyone only
> needs one environment setup in order to get all builds working
> simultaneously.

The dependency detection cannot work if I have dependencies in uncommon
directories.
I think it is important to allow testing compilation with dependencies
which are available but not installed, by providing paths.