[Xapian-tickets] [Xapian] #832: Compiling xapian with meson. Strange error in tests.

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#832: Compiling xapian with meson. Strange error in tests.
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 Reporter:  mgautier      |             Owner:  Olly Betts
     Type:  task          |            Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |         Milestone:
Component:  Build system  |           Version:
 Severity:  normal        |        Resolution:
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 Blocking:                |  Operating System:  All
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Comment (by Olly Betts):

 I'd been wondering about looking at switching to meson at some point so
 I'm open to the idea, but at this point in the release cycle I think it
 would need to be targetted at the release series after next.  We're
 getting close to starting the next release series (down to a handful of
 open tickets) and it's already been much too long since we started 1.4.x.
 I would still consider merging additional changes at this point, but
 changing the entire build system seems too much (and there isn't a working
 patch yet).

 I really can't think of a reason for the failures you're seeing, but I'm
 afraid I just don't have the spare cycles to investigate at the moment.

 I don't think I've seen any of those problems with the current build
 system.  The only currently sometimes flaky tests are some of the timed
 ones (which you can set `export AUTOMATED_TESTING=1` to skip).  We have
 sometimes hit platform-specific flakiness, but I think we now have fixed
 or worked around all known cases of that.

 > For more context, we are already building xapian using autotools on
 windows on appveyor CI

 We also have builds in our CI:

 * https://github.com/xapian/xapian/actions/
 * https://ci.appveyor.com/project/ojwb/xapian (tests MSVC 2017 which isn't
 available in GHA)
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