systemd/docs/CODE_QUALITY.md
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek e8a688178c docs: stop recommending meson compile
With meson-0.60, meson compile stopped working with some targets:

$ meson compile -C build update-man-rules
ERROR: Can't invoke target `update-man-rules`: ambiguous name. Add target type and/or path: `PATH/NAME:TYPE`

This is obviously a regression in meson, but based on a chat with the
maintainers, it seems that there's some disagreement as to whether 'meson
compile' is useful and how exactly it should work. Since we're already at
meson 0.60.3 and this hasn't been fixed, and people generally don't seem to
consider this an issue, let's return to documenting the usual practice of
'ninja -C build' that just works everywhere.

(Since nobody has raised any fuss in systemd, it means that people are
generally using the shorter form during development too. I only noticed
because I pasted a command from the release docs when preparing -rc1.)
2022-04-12 12:35:44 +02:00

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---
title: Code Quality Tools
category: Contributing
layout: default
SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later
---
# Code Quality Tools
The systemd project has a number of code quality tools set up in the source
tree and on the github infrastructure. Here's an incomprehensive list of the
available functionality:
1. Use `meson test -C build` to run the unit tests. Some tests are skipped if
no privileges are available, hence consider also running them with `sudo
meson test -C build`. A couple of unit tests are considered "unsafe" (as
they change system state); to run those too, build with `meson setup
-Dtests=unsafe`. Finally, some unit tests are considered to be very slow,
build them too with `meson setup -Dslow-tests=true`. (Note that there are a
couple of manual tests in addition to these unit tests.) (Also note: you can
change these flags for an already set up build tree, too, with "meson
configure -C build -D…".)
2. Use `./test/run-integration-tests.sh` to run the full integration test
suite. This will build OS images with a number of integration tests and run
them in nspawn and qemu. Requires root.
3. Use `./coccinelle/run-coccinelle.sh` to run all
[Coccinelle](http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) semantic patch scripts we ship. The
output will show false positives, hence take it with a pinch of salt.
4. Use `./tools/find-double-newline.sh recdiff` to find double newlines. Use
`./tools/find-double-newline.sh recpatch` to fix them. Take this with a grain
of salt, in particular as we generally leave foreign header files we include in
our tree unmodified, if possible.
5. Similar use `./tools/find-tabs.sh recdiff` to find TABs, and
`./tools/find-tabs.sh recpatch` to fix them. (Again, grain of salt, foreign
headers should usually be left unmodified.)
6. Use `ninja -C build check-api-docs` to compare the list of exported symbols
of `libsystemd.so` and `libudev.so` with the list of man pages. Symbols
lacking documentation are highlighted.
7. Use `ninja -C build update-hwdb` and `ninja -C build update-hwdb-autosuspend`
to automatically download and import the PCI, USB, and OUI databases and the
autosuspend quirks into the hwdb.
8. Use `ninja -C build update-man-rules` to update the meson rules for building
man pages automatically from the docbook XML files included in `man/`.
9. There are multiple CI systems in use that run on every github pull request
submission or update.
10. [Coverity](https://scan.coverity.com/) is analyzing systemd `main` branch
in regular intervals. The reports are available
[online](https://scan.coverity.com/projects/systemd).
11. [oss-fuzz](https://oss-fuzz.com/) is continuously fuzzing the
codebase. Reports are available
[online](https://oss-fuzz.com/v2/testcases?project=systemd).
12. Our tree includes `.editorconfig`, `.dir-locals.el` and `.vimrc` files, to
ensure that editors follow the right indentiation styles automatically.
13. When building systemd from a git checkout the build scripts will
automatically enable a git commit hook that ensures whitespace cleanliness.
14. [LGTM](https://lgtm.com/) analyzes every commit pushed to `main`. The list
of active alerts can be found
[here](https://lgtm.com/projects/g/systemd/systemd/alerts/?mode=list).
15. Each PR is automatically tested with [Address Sanitizer](https://clang.llvm.org/docs/AddressSanitizer.html)
and [Undefined Behavior Sanitizer](https://clang.llvm.org/docs/UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer.html).
See [Testing systemd using sanitizers](https://systemd.io/TESTING_WITH_SANITIZERS)
for more information.
16. Fossies provides [source code misspelling reports](https://fossies.org/features.html#codespell).
The systemd report can be found [here](https://fossies.org/linux/misc/systemd/codespell.html).
Access to Coverity and oss-fuzz reports is limited. Please reach out to the
maintainers if you need access.