nvme-cli & json vs blktests

[Daniel Wagner]

On Mon, May 19, 2025 at 11:56:42AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, May 19, 2025 at 11:51:47AM +0200, Daniel Wagner wrote:
> > On Mon, May 19, 2025 at 07:49:05AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > make the nvme-cli build a little less arcane?
> > 
> > There is no magic build into the meson/ninja build system. meson creates
> > the ninja build instruction which are fully hardcoded, thus it wont pick
> > up any newly installed libraries on automatically. Running meson with
> > 'setup --reconfigure' is a design choice of this build system.
> > 
> > I don't really see a problem with this approach.
> 
> The fact that a make clean is not clean enough to find newly installed
> dependencies is very unusual.

Okay, so the Makefile is not really working in your workflow as expected. I see
there are two targets 'clean' and 'purge'. I suppose it would make sense
to model the 'clean' target more what autotools  & co are doing. Really
wiping everything away. Let me fix this.