[libvirt] [dbus PATCH v2] build: convert to Meson/Ninja build system

Andrea Bolognani abologna at redhat.com
Mon Sep 23 10:31:34 UTC 2019


On Mon, 2019-09-23 at 11:02 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 11:59:01AM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > For what it's worth, I also prefer 'syntax': the -check suffix is
> > useful for make because it highlights that you're verifying some
> > property of the program, and also clearly ties
> > 
> >   make check
> >   make syntax-check
> > 
> > together. In the case of Meson, the fact that you're verifying
> > something is explicit in the name of the ninja target, and also
> > 
> >   ninja test --suite unit
> >   ninja test --suite syntax
> > 
> > are already very obviously connected. Using 'syntax-check' for the
> > latter would, if anything, make the relationship unbalanced: why
> > didn't we call the former 'unit-check' then?
> 
> How about calling the suite "style" rather than "syntax" since I
> think that better reflects what it is actually doing. It is coding
> style / guidelines checks.

Sounds good to me!

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization




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