The contents were already preserved between tests in a single test.pl run but for a separate execution the entire project had to be built from scratch, which was getting slower as we added code.
Save the important build flags in a file so the new execution knows whether the build contents can be reused.
Mounting/unmounting tmpfs on /home/[user]/test takes time, forces at least 3GB of memory to be available for tests, and makes it harder to preserve data between tests.
Instead, move mounting of tmpfs to the Vagrantfile and add it to fstab so it survives reboots.
C or Perl coverage tests can now be run on any VM provided a recent enough version of Devel::Cover or lcov is available.
For now, leave u18 as the only VM to run coverage tests due to some issues with older versions of lcov.
This allows setting the test log level independently from the general test harness setting, but current only works for the C tests. It is useful for seeing log output from functions on the console while a test is running.
Bug Fixes:
* Fix potential buffer overrun in error message handling. (Reported by Lætitia.)
* Fix archive write lock being taken for the synchronous archive-get command. (Reported by Uspen.)
Improvements:
* Embed exported C functions and Perl modules directly into the pgBackRest executable.
* Use time_t instead of __time_t for better portability. (Suggested by Nick Floersch.)
* Print total runtime in milliseconds at command end.
Low-level functions only include stack trace in test builds while higher-level functions ship with stack trace built-in. Stack traces include all parameters passed to the function but production builds only create the parameter list when the log level is set high enough, i.e. debug or trace depending on the function.
* Allow more than one test to provide coverage for the same module.
* Add option to disable valgrind.
* Add option to disabled coverage.
* Add option to disable debug build.
* Add option to disable compiler optimization.
* Add --dev-test mode.
The Perl process was exiting directly when called but that interfered with proper locking for the forked async process. Now Perl returns results to the C process which handles all errors, including signals.
Switch from Devel::Cover because it would not report on branch coverage for reports converted from gcov.
Branch coverage is not complete, so for the time being errors will only be generated when statement coverage is not complete. Coverage of unit tests is not displayed in the report unless they are incomplete for either statement or branch coverage.
The coverage report shows some code as never being run -- but that makes no sense because the tests pass. This may be due to trying to combine the C and Perl coverage reports and overwriting some runs.
Suppress for now with a plan to implement LCOV for the C unit tests.