Re: [PATCH 1/3] systemd: upgrade to 237

[Alexander Kanavin <alexander.kanavin@linux.intel.com>]

On 03/22/2018 08:06 AM, ChenQi wrote:
> The test framework meson uses is like:
> 
> |e = executable('prog', 'testprog.c') test('name of test', e)|
> 
> 
> http://mesonbuild.com/Unit-tests.html
> 
> So they could be defined in any valid meson.build file. In systemd's 
> case, most of them are in top-level meson.build.
> 
> I agree with you that it's possible to extract all these test cases and 
> hold them in a custom script we write. I think this could serve as a 
> fall-back approach to adding ptest support for systemd.
> But I'd like to spend some time to try to find a more general approach, 
> avoiding headaches when upgrading.

That's right. We probably need to put some kind of 'hook' inside meson's 
test() that would copy the test case to a ptest directory, instead of 
running it.

Alex