executable should have rename argument

[kevemueller]

Meson restricts the target identifier, e.g. test is not allowed as an identifier.
This means test as in e.g. /bin/test cannot be built by Meson under this name. You need to give it another identifier, e.g. mytest.
But install: yes will use the identifier as the target name, i.e. there is no way one would end up with test in the installation folder.

install_data has a rename argument, this should be also appplicable to executable:

test_exe = executable('mytest', ..., install: true, rename: 'test')