Re: [PATCH] allow disabling tests

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 10:59:24AM -0500, Simeon Schaub wrote:
> From b6ec17a85a8fb2431545f9c5093dbce9a090b522 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Simeon David Schaub <schaub@mit.edu>
> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 10:51:04 -0500
> Subject: [PATCH] allow disabling tests
> 
> Adds an option to avoid running tests as part of the build process.

We don't run tests as part of the build process

We /compile/ tests, but running them requires an explicit call
to 'make check'.

Can you give more info on the problem you had ? Presumably it
was related to compilation rather than running tests ?

>                                                                     I
> ran `make update-buildoptions` to update the meson options, but this
> seemed to also change the `qga-vss` option. I assume this isn't intended
> to happen, any ideas what's going on there?
> 
> Signed-off-by: Simeon David Schaub <schaub@mit.edu>
> ---
>  meson.build                   | 4 +++-
>  meson_options.txt             | 3 +++
>  scripts/meson-buildoptions.sh | 5 ++++-
>  3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
> index 8df40bfac4..8b5935447a 100644
> --- a/meson.build
> +++ b/meson.build
> @@ -3308,7 +3308,9 @@ subdir('scripts')
>  subdir('tools')
>  subdir('pc-bios')
>  subdir('docs')
> -subdir('tests')
> +if get_option('tests')
> +  subdir('tests')
> +endif
>  if gtk.found()
>    subdir('po')
>  endif
> diff --git a/meson_options.txt b/meson_options.txt
> index 52b11cead4..6527a5a368 100644
> --- a/meson_options.txt
> +++ b/meson_options.txt
> @@ -270,3 +270,6 @@ option('profiler', type: 'boolean', value: false,
>         description: 'profiler support')
>  option('slirp_smbd', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
>         description: 'use smbd (at path --smbd=*) in slirp networking')
> +
> +option('tests', type : 'boolean', value : true,
> +       description: 'run QEMU tests as part of the build process')
> diff --git a/scripts/meson-buildoptions.sh b/scripts/meson-buildoptions.sh
> index 9ee684ef03..9271324c6a 100644
> --- a/scripts/meson-buildoptions.sh
> +++ b/scripts/meson-buildoptions.sh
> @@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ meson_options_help() {
>    printf "%s\n" '  --enable-malloc=CHOICE   choose memory allocator to
> use [system] (choices:'
>    printf "%s\n" '                           jemalloc/system/tcmalloc)'
>    printf "%s\n" '  --enable-profiler        profiler support'
> -  printf "%s\n" '  --enable-qga-vss         build QGA VSS support'
>    printf "%s\n" '  --enable-qom-cast-debug  cast debugging support'
>    printf "%s\n" '  --enable-rng-none        dummy RNG, avoid using
> /dev/(u)random and'
>    printf "%s\n" '                           getrandom()'
> @@ -28,6 +27,7 @@ meson_options_help() {
>    printf "%s\n" '                           (choices:
> auto/disabled/enabled/internal/system)'
>    printf "%s\n" '  --enable-strip           Strip targets on install'
>    printf "%s\n" '  --enable-tcg-interpreter TCG with bytecode
> interpreter (slow)'
> +  printf "%s\n" '  --disable-tests          run QEMU tests as part of
> the build process'
>    printf "%s\n" '  --enable-trace-backends=CHOICE'
>    printf "%s\n" '                           Set available tracing
> backends [log] (choices:'
>    printf "%s\n" '
> dtrace/ftrace/log/nop/simple/syslog/ust)'
> @@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ meson_options_help() {
>    printf "%s\n" '  parallels       parallels image format support'
>    printf "%s\n" '  qcow1           qcow1 image format support'
>    printf "%s\n" '  qed             qed image format support'
> +  printf "%s\n" '  qga-vss         build QGA VSS support (broken with
> MinGW)'
>    printf "%s\n" '  rbd             Ceph block device driver'
>    printf "%s\n" '  replication     replication support'
>    printf "%s\n" '  sdl             SDL user interface'
> @@ -322,6 +323,8 @@ _meson_option_parse() {
>      --disable-tcg) printf "%s" -Dtcg=disabled ;;
>      --enable-tcg-interpreter) printf "%s" -Dtcg_interpreter=true ;;
>      --disable-tcg-interpreter) printf "%s" -Dtcg_interpreter=false ;;
> +    --enable-tests) printf "%s" -Dtests=true ;;
> +    --disable-tests) printf "%s" -Dtests=false ;;
>      --enable-tools) printf "%s" -Dtools=enabled ;;
>      --disable-tools) printf "%s" -Dtools=disabled ;;
>      --enable-tpm) printf "%s" -Dtpm=enabled ;;
> -- 
> 2.35.1
> 

Regards,
Daniel
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