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mesh-controller/internal/catalogue/build_system_test.go
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jschoubben 228d0226dd An artifact says which operating system it is built for
First of the steps in novox/hq ADR 0142, and it ships alone: a new manifest word
reaches the builder and the controller one release before any manifest uses it.

A toolchain deliberately accepts nothing from the module — anything a module
could override there it would be writing a Dockerfile to override — and yet a
compiled binary is per operating system, pinned at link time so a host refuses to
touch a machine it was not built for (ADR 0005). The way out is that the target
belongs to the artifact: one artifact per system, one build each, recipe still the
mesh's.

A bundle in a language that compiles to a binary must name a system, or it would
be built for whatever the build machine happened to be — which reads as portable
and is not. A bundle in a language that runs anywhere may not name one, because a
system that decides nothing reads as though it did. The list is the host's own
names, not a compiler's: the difference between two of them is a C library rather
than a kernel.

Nothing declares a system yet, and no toolchain compiles to a binary yet, so this
changes no build.
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package catalogue
import (
"strings"
"testing"
)
// bundleFor is a manifest whose one artifact is a bundle in the given language and system.
func bundleFor(language, system string) Manifest {
return Manifest{Module: "a-component", Build: &Build{Artifacts: []Artifact{
{Name: "binary", Kind: ArtifactBundle, Language: language, System: system},
}}}
}
func problemsOf(t *testing.T, m Manifest) string {
t.Helper()
return strings.Join(m.Build.problems(m.Module), "\n")
}
// **A language that compiles to a binary must say which system.**
//
// A binary is pinned to one operating system at link time, so a host refuses to touch a machine it
// was not built for. An artifact that says nothing would be compiled for whatever the build machine
// happened to be — which reads as portable and is not, and is the fault this check exists for.
func TestABinaryMustSayWhichSystemItIsFor(t *testing.T) {
got := problemsOf(t, bundleFor("go", ""))
if !strings.Contains(got, "says no system") {
t.Fatalf("a compiled bundle with no system was accepted:\n%s", got)
}
// And the refusal names what it could have said, so a reader is one edit from right.
for _, system := range []string{"alpine", "android", "arch"} {
if !strings.Contains(got, system) {
t.Fatalf("the refusal does not name %q as a choice:\n%s", system, got)
}
}
}
func TestABinaryThatNamesASystemIsAccepted(t *testing.T) {
if got := problemsOf(t, bundleFor("go", "arch")); got != "" {
t.Fatalf("a compiled bundle naming a system was refused:\n%s", got)
}
}
// A system the mesh does not build for is refused where it is written. These are the host's own
// names, not a compiler's: the difference between two of them is a C library rather than a kernel,
// so a value that looks like an operating system to a toolchain is still wrong here.
func TestASystemTheMeshDoesNotBuildForIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
for _, wrong := range []string{"linux", "debian", "darwin"} {
got := problemsOf(t, bundleFor("go", wrong))
if !strings.Contains(got, "and a system is") {
t.Fatalf("%q was accepted as a system:\n%s", wrong, got)
}
}
}
// **And a language that runs anywhere must not name one.** A system that decides nothing reads as
// though it did, which is the same fault as a restriction that restricts nothing (novox/hq ADR 0045).
func TestAPortableBundleMayNotNameASystem(t *testing.T) {
got := problemsOf(t, bundleFor("typescript", "arch"))
if !strings.Contains(got, "runs anywhere") {
t.Fatalf("a portable bundle was allowed to name a system:\n%s", got)
}
}
func TestAPortableBundleNamingNoSystemIsAccepted(t *testing.T) {
if got := problemsOf(t, bundleFor("typescript", "")); got != "" {
t.Fatalf("an ordinary bundle was refused:\n%s", got)
}
}
// One component, one artifact per system: the shape the mesh's own binaries are declared in, and the
// reason the target is the artifact's rather than the recipe's.
func TestOneArtifactPerSystemIsAccepted(t *testing.T) {
m := Manifest{Module: "the-host", Build: &Build{Artifacts: []Artifact{
{Name: "arch", Kind: ArtifactBundle, Language: "go", System: "arch"},
{Name: "alpine", Kind: ArtifactBundle, Language: "go", System: "alpine"},
{Name: "android", Kind: ArtifactBundle, Language: "go", System: "android"},
}}}
if got := problemsOf(t, m); got != "" {
t.Fatalf("one artifact per system was refused:\n%s", got)
}
}