Re: [PATCH 0/3] mtest2make: clean up and make dependencies more precise

[John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> You probably have never thought much about scripts/mtest2make.py, and in
> fact it has seen only a hendful of commits in the last few years.
> The idea is pretty simple: gather the list of testsuites and their
> dependencies, and turn a "make check-*" invocation into calling "ninja"
> first and "meson test" second.  On top of that, it magically turns
> SPEED=thorough into invoking up to three suites named XYZ, XYZ-slow
> and XYZ-thorough.
>
> But even this incospicuous script can harbor a bug, or rather an "I
> didn't really think too much about it" situation.  Dependencies are added
> to suite XYZ independent of the speed that is used in the meson.build
> file: add a dependency to a func-thorough test and "make check-func"
> will build it at any requested speed.
>
> Fixing this is a one line change, but it is easiest with a small cleanup
> on the front, which is patch 1.  This (at least to me) makes the generated
> Makefile.mtest file a little bit easier to read, which is also nice
> to have.
>
> Paolo
>

Gorgeous, thank you so much, Paolo!

I folded this series into my patchset just to make sure my tests
passed, but we can debate about which patches to take, when, and in
what order, I'm not precious about it.

https://patchew.org/QEMU/20251117185131.953681-1-jsnow@redhat.com/

>
> Paolo Bonzini (3):
>   mtest2make: cleanup mtest-suites variables
>   mtest2make: add dependencies to the "speed-qualified" suite
>   mtest2make: do not repeat the same speed over and over
>
>  Makefile              |  4 +++-
>  scripts/mtest2make.py | 43 ++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
>  2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
>
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> 2.51.1
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