There are number of problems with up-to-date checks in tests, leading to
a test binary not being rebuilt or rerun when a developer expects it to.
Things became worse after updating to Gradle 7+:
test binary run tasks are considered up-to-date if the test data
has been changed, even after clean.
Even before Gradle 7+, we've observed other similar undesirable effects:
for example, if the compiler has been changed, tasks building
test binaries are still up-to-date.
There are quite a lot of different tasks related to running the tests
for Native, many of them are misused and thus don't do what we expect.
Carefully fixing each particular kind seems counterproductive and
unreliable.
So instead workaround all possible similar problems by forcing all tasks
in the :kotlin-native:backend.native:tests project to be not up-to-date.
This project should contain only test tasks, so this workaround
seems pretty natural -- it is just "tests aren't up-to-date".
Svyatoslav Scherbina
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