[libvirt PATCH 2/2] meson: Add tests_timeout build option

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 03:56:08PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-09-09 at 14:41 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 03:38:21PM +0200, Pavel Hrdina wrote:
> > > On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 02:31:48PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > > > Does Meson not have a standard way to increase the default
> > > > timeout globally ? It feels like this scenario of building
> > > > on slow hardware could hit any application, so surprised
> > > > we need to add our own args for this
> > > 
> > > It does but only if using meson command:
> > > 
> > >     meson test -t 
> > > 
> > > if the tests are started using ninja command:
> > > 
> > >     ninja test
> > > 
> > > it is not possible to pass additional arguments to meson via ninja.
> > 
> > So unless there's a blocker preventing use of "meson test -t" then
> > it seems we don't need this patch.
> 
> Fedora seems to be using 'meson test' already; Debian uses 'ninja
> test' in debhelper compat level 12 but switched to 'meson test' with
> level 13, which doesn't look problematic otherwise and I should be
> able to adopt pretty quickly.
> 
> I'm not sure about other distributions out there. Taking a step back,
> what are the reasons one might want to call either meson or ninja to
> run the test suite?

It appears that 'ninja test' is just a dumb shim to invoke
'meson test'.  Given that using meson test directly looks
much saner as you get the full range of functionality
available.

Regards,
Daniel
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