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.
Affected unit tests load testdata from the srcdir. Previously, there
was a kludge that chdir()ed to the tests srcdir, but that get removed
during refactoring. Instead of introducing the kludge again, the paths
were fixed to be properly prefixed with TESTS_DIR as needed.
2022-06-01 17:08:37 +02:00
Renamed from tests/dns/testdata/master/master18.data (Browse further)
