Re: [Tracker] Meson build instructions for Tracker

[Sam Thursfield <ssssam gmail com>]

On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 12:22 PM, Carlos Garnacho <carlosg gnome org> wrote:
> Right, most failing tests are the functional ones. I'm more baffled at
> the tracker-steroids test timing out here. Running it manually leaves
> it stuck awaiting for the reply of the first update, while the
> autotools generated one just succeeds.

There are a few ones that fail for me due to locale mismatches trying
to use the libtracker-direct backend. I tried setting XDG_CACHE_HOME
and XDG_DATA_HOME to an empty directory for these but I still get
issues. They seem to pass with Autotools though -- it's weird.

The functional tests need a bit of reworking to run the right
executables from the source tree. Probably the test runner should pass
these flags in through the environment.

> Hopefully functional tests will get better when we have
> domain-ontologies in place :).

Yes

> Go go go! I guess we'll have to do
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2017-April/msg00091.html
> before the next release, but I can go ahead after you merge it.

Done :-)

I also added the meson.build files to EXTRA_DIST so they will appear
in future tarballs.

Sam