By default, Meson only knows to pay respect to the exit code of tests to
judge whether or not it ran successfully. This can be changed though by
specifying the "protocol" parameter. Next to the default "exitcode"
protocol, Meson also supports the "tap" output that our tests already
know to generate.
Unfortunately, the "tap" protocol was incompatible with `meson test
--interactive` and caused a hang. We have upstreamed a fix [1] though,
so with the recent release of Meson 1.8 that fix is finally out and we
can start using the "tap" protocol when running with a recent-enough
version of this build tool.
With this change in place, Meson now properly detects how many subtests
ran and whether test suites have been skipped:
```
$ meson test t002*
ninja: Entering directory `/home/pks/Development/git/build'
1/10 t0024-crlf-archive OK 0.17s 2 subtests passed
2/10 t0022-crlf-rename OK 0.18s 2 subtests passed
3/10 t0029-core-unsetenvvars SKIP 0.15s
4/10 t0023-crlf-am OK 0.18s 2 subtests passed
5/10 t0025-crlf-renormalize OK 0.21s 3 subtests passed
6/10 t0026-eol-config OK 0.25s 5 subtests passed
7/10 t0020-crlf OK 0.81s 36 subtests passed
8/10 t0028-working-tree-encoding OK 0.85s 22 subtests passed
9/10 t0021-conversion OK 3.45s 38 subtests passed
10/10 t0027-auto-crlf OK 26.35s 2600 subtests passed
Ok: 9
Fail: 0
Skipped: 1
```
Note that when running `meson test --interactive` the test results will
now be marked as "ignored". This is because in interactive mode the file
descriptors will remain connected to the user's terminal, and it is
expected that the user interacts with the tests (e.g., spawn a debugger
or use `test_pause`). As such, the TAP output cannot be parsed reliably
by Meson in that case, so the tests are marked as ignored accordingly.
[1]: https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/13980
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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