Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > The Makefile supports a target called 'hdr-check', which checks if > individual header files can be independently compiled. Let's port this > functionality to meson, our new build system too. Good goal. > Let's avoid the abbreviation and name the target 'headers-check', which > is easier to read. This is a bit dubious. Are developers supposed to keep track of correspondence between the long establish name and the new name this patch just came up with? For how long? If we make it one of our goals to name the build target in pronounceable ways, that is perfectly fine, and it would be a good task to allow "make headers-check" be a synonym for "make hdr-check" (and do the same on the meson side), and deprecate hdr-check in a cycle or two (this is not end-user facing, so the transition period can legitimately be much shorter than usual. But we still need to have some transition period to help those who build from the source adjust their set-ups that have called "make hdr-check" for a long time.
