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96a3683308 Ban building Nix with NDEBUG
When reviewing old PRs, I found that #9997 adds some code to ensure one
particular assert is always present. But, removing asserts isn't
something we do in our own release builds either in the flake here or in
nixpkgs, and is plainly a bad idea that increases support burden,
especially if other distros make bad choices of build flags in their Nix
packaging.

For context, the assert macro in the C standard is defined to do nothing
if NDEBUG is set.

There is no way in our build system to set -DNDEBUG without manually
adding it to CFLAGS, so this is simply a configuration we do not use.
Let's ban it at compile time.

I put this preprocessor directive in src/libutil.cc because it is not
obvious where else to put it, and it seems like the most logical file
since you are not getting a usable nix without it.

Upstream-PR: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/10126
Original-Change-Id: I513cceaac1371decb3d96231e6ef9181c910c218
Change-Id: I531a51f6348a746e8e41d88203b08f614898356c
2024-03-04 09:24:58 +01:00
John Ericson
f7f37035c8 Move tests to separate directories, and document
Today, with the tests inside a `tests` intermingled with the
corresponding library's source code, we have a few problems:

- We have to be careful that wildcards don't end up with tests being
  built as part of Nix proper, or test headers being installed as part
  of Nix proper.

- Tests in libraries but not executables is not right:

  - It means each executable runs the previous unit tests again, because
    it needs the libraries.

  - It doesn't work right on Windows, which doesn't want you to load a
    DLL just for the side global variable . It could be made to work
    with the dlopen equivalent, but that's gross!

This reorg solves these problems.

There is a remaining problem which is that sibbling headers (like
`hash.hh` the test header vs `hash.hh` the main `libnixutil` header) end
up shadowing each other. This PR doesn't solve that. That is left as
future work for a future PR.

Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>

(cherry picked from commit 91b6833686a6a6d9eac7f3f66393ec89ef1d3b57)
(cherry picked from commit a61e42adb528b3d40ce43e07c79368d779a8b624)
2023-12-01 13:05:03 -05:00
Renamed from src/libstore/tests/outputs-spec.cc (Browse further)