ci: wire up Meson builds

Wire up CI builds for both GitLab and GitHub that use the Meson build
system.

While the setup is mostly trivial, one gotcha is the test output
directory which used to be in "t/", but now it is contained in the build
directory. To unify the logic across Makefile- and Meson-based builds we
explicitly set up the `TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY` variable so that it is the
same for both build systems.

Note that the new Meson-based CI jobs actually take _longer_ to execute
than the Makefile-based ones. This is not due to an inherent slowless of
Meson though, but rather because it sets up a couple of environment
variables:

  - MALLOC_PERTURB causes glibc to initialize allocated memory blocks
    with a specific value. This can be used to detect uninitialized or
    freed heap memory.

  - ASAN_OPTIONS, UBSAN_OPTIONS and MBSAN_OPTIONS are set up such that
    programs will abort on any errors.

The latter does not matter in the context where we don't enable those
sanitizers, but the former does cause a slowdown. And while we could
explicitly disable these I don't see a reason to do so given that they
may help us detect more issues in our CI.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <[email protected]>

.github/workflows/main.yml

@@ -286,6 +286,9 @@ jobs:
           - jobname: osx-gcc
             cc: gcc-13
             pool: macos-13
+          - jobname: osx-meson
+            cc: clang
+            pool: macos-13
           - jobname: linux-gcc-default
             cc: gcc
             pool: ubuntu-latest
@@ -298,11 +301,15 @@ jobs:
           - jobname: linux-asan-ubsan
             cc: clang
             pool: ubuntu-latest
+          - jobname: linux-meson
+            cc: gcc
+            pool: ubuntu-latest
     env:
       CC: ${{matrix.vector.cc}}
       CC_PACKAGE: ${{matrix.vector.cc_package}}
       jobname: ${{matrix.vector.jobname}}
       distro: ${{matrix.vector.pool}}
+      TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY: ${{github.workspace}}/test-output
     runs-on: ${{matrix.vector.pool}}
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v4

.gitlab-ci.yml

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ test:linux:
     - saas-linux-medium-amd64
   variables:
     CUSTOM_PATH: "/custom"
+    TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY: "/tmp/test-output"
   before_script:
     - ./ci/install-dependencies.sh
   script:
@@ -31,6 +32,7 @@ test:linux:
       if test "$CI_JOB_STATUS" != 'success'
       then
         sudo --preserve-env --set-home --user=builder ./ci/print-test-failures.sh
+        mv "$TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY"/failed-test-artifacts t/
       fi
   parallel:
     matrix:
@@ -67,6 +69,10 @@ test:linux:
         image: fedora:latest
       - jobname: linux-musl
         image: alpine:latest
+      - jobname: linux-meson
+        image: ubuntu:latest
+        CC: gcc
+        CC_PACKAGE: gcc
   artifacts:
     paths:
       - t/failed-test-artifacts
@@ -104,6 +110,9 @@ test:osx:
       - jobname: osx-reftable
         image: macos-14-xcode-15
         CC: clang
+      - jobname: osx-meson
+        image: macos-14-xcode-15
+        CC: clang
   artifacts:
     paths:
       - t/failed-test-artifacts

ci/install-dependencies.sh

@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ ubuntu-*|ubuntu32-*)
 		make libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libexpat-dev wget sudo default-jre \
 		tcl tk gettext zlib1g-dev perl-modules liberror-perl libauthen-sasl-perl \
 		libemail-valid-perl libio-pty-perl libio-socket-ssl-perl libnet-smtp-ssl-perl libdbd-sqlite3-perl libcgi-pm-perl \
+		libpcre2-dev meson ninja-build pkg-config \
 		${CC_PACKAGE:-${CC:-gcc}} $PYTHON_PACKAGE
 
 	case "$distro" in
@@ -89,6 +90,12 @@ macos-*)
 	sudo xattr -d com.apple.quarantine "$CUSTOM_PATH/p4" "$CUSTOM_PATH/p4d" 2>/dev/null || true
 	rm helix-core-server.tgz
 
+	case "$jobname" in
+	osx-meson)
+		brew install meson ninja pcre2
+		;;
+	esac
+
 	if test -n "$CC_PACKAGE"
 	then
 		BREW_PACKAGE=${CC_PACKAGE/-/@}

ci/lib.sh

@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ then
 	CC="${CC_PACKAGE:-${CC:-gcc}}"
 	DONT_SKIP_TAGS=t
 	handle_failed_tests () {
-		echo "FAILED_TEST_ARTIFACTS=t/failed-test-artifacts" >>$GITHUB_ENV
+		echo "FAILED_TEST_ARTIFACTS=${TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY:-t}/failed-test-artifacts" >>$GITHUB_ENV
 		create_failed_test_artifacts
 		return 1
 	}

ci/print-test-failures.sh

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ do
 			;;
 		github-actions)
 			mkdir -p failed-test-artifacts
-			echo "FAILED_TEST_ARTIFACTS=t/failed-test-artifacts" >>$GITHUB_ENV
+			echo "FAILED_TEST_ARTIFACTS=${TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY:t}/failed-test-artifacts" >>$GITHUB_ENV
 			cp "${TEST_EXIT%.exit}.out" failed-test-artifacts/
 			tar czf failed-test-artifacts/"$test_name".trash.tar.gz "$trash_dir"
 			continue

ci/run-build-and-tests.sh

@@ -48,12 +48,29 @@ pedantic)
 	;;
 esac
 
-group Build make
-if test -n "$run_tests"
-then
-	group "Run tests" make test ||
-	handle_failed_tests
-fi
-check_unignored_build_artifacts
+case "$jobname" in
+*-meson)
+	group "Configure" meson setup build . \
+		--warnlevel 2 --werror \
+		--wrap-mode nofallback
+	group "Build" meson compile -C build --
+	if test -n "$run_tests"
+	then
+		group "Run tests" meson test -C build --print-errorlogs --test-args="$GIT_TEST_OPTS" || (
+			./t/aggregate-results.sh "${TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY:-t}/test-results"
+			handle_failed_tests
+		)
+	fi
+	;;
+*)
+	group Build make
+	if test -n "$run_tests"
+	then
+		group "Run tests" make test ||
+		handle_failed_tests
+	fi
+	;;
+esac
 
+check_unignored_build_artifacts
 save_good_tree