Meson is a modern build system that has seen a rise in adoption and some
version of it is available in almost every platform supported.
Compared to automake, meson has the following advantages:
* Meson provides a significant boost to the build and configuration time
by better exploiting parallelism.
* Meson is subjectively considered to be better in readability.
These merits alone justify experimenting with meson as a way of
improving development time and ergonomics. However, there are some
compromises to ensure the transition goes relatively smooth:
* The system tests currently rely on various files within the source
directory. Changing this requirement is a non-trivial task that can't
be currently justified. Currently the last compiled build directory
writes into the source tree which is in turn used by pytest.
* The minimum version supported has been fixed at 0.61. Increasing this
value will require choosing a baseline of distributions that can
package with meson. On the contrary, there will likely be an attempt
to decrease this value to ensure almost universal support for building
BIND 9 with meson.
All changes in this commit were automated using the command:
shfmt -w -i 2 -ci -bn . $(find . -name "*.sh.in")
By default, only *.sh and files without extension are checked, so
*.sh.in files have to be added additionally. (See mvdan/sh#944)
The get_core_dumps.sh script couldn't find and process core files of
out-of-tree configurations because it looked for them in the source
instead of the build directory.
The line summarising TSAN reports was misplaced in the ASAN territory
and thus never used.
I also made core dumps, assertion failures, and TSAN reports detection
independent of each other.
Move the core dump detection functionality for system test runs into a
separate script. This enables reuse by the pytest runner. The
functionality remains the same.
