Is there a way to mark a test to NOT be run by default?

[mlittlej]

Hi,

I've got a suite of tests that run under meson which I've recently made changes to so that they can be run in parallel. Think: splitting a single large test executable into multiple, independent executables that meson can run in parallel.

However, I need to make sure that the old, large single executable continues to function for the sake of compatibility with other tools.

That having been said, I don't want the old, large single executable to run as part of the default meson test invocation. I only want it to run when it's specifically called by name, i.e. meson test test-old-large-exec.

Is there some undocumented exclusion parameter, or negation that I can apply to the test definition in my meson.build file that I can use to prevent this suite from being run, while keeping it defined and easy to run if a user wants to.

Thanks,
M

[eli-schwartz]

https://mesonbuild.com/Reference-manual_functions.html#add_test_setup

add_test_setup('default', is_default: true, exclude_suites: ['legacy'])

And add test-old-large-exec to the "legacy" suite.

This allows you to use meson test --setup=default to run all tests that aren't in the legacy suite, but also defaults to --setup=default unless you pass a different manual value of --setup.