Eli Schwartz
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It's entirely possible some people don't have valgrind installed, but still want to run the tests. If they don't have it installed, then they probably don't intend to run those precise test targets anyway. Also, this solves an error when running the tests in an automated environment. The valgrind tests have a hard dependency on behavior such as `./zstd` erroring out with the message "stdin is a console, aborting" which does not work if the automated environment doesn't have a console. As a rough heuristic, automated environments lacking a console will *probably* also not have valgrind, so avoiding that test definition neatly sidesteps the issue. Also, valgrind is not easily installable on macOS, at least homebrew says it isn't available there. This makes it needlessly hard to enable the testsuite on macOS.
Meson build system for zstandard
Meson is a build system designed to optimize programmer productivity. It aims to do this by providing simple, out-of-the-box support for modern software development tools and practices, such as unit tests, coverage reports, Valgrind, CCache and the like.
This Meson build system is provided with no guarantee and maintained by Dima Krasner <dima@dimakrasner.com>.
It outputs one libzstd, either shared or static, depending on
default_library option.
How to build
cd to this meson directory (build/meson)
meson setup -Dbin_programs=true -Dbin_contrib=true builddir
cd builddir
ninja # to build
ninja install # to install
You might want to install it in staging directory:
DESTDIR=./staging ninja install
To configure build options, use:
meson configure
See man meson(1).