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

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

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:
> > On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 03:10:06PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > > The default timeout for tests is 30s, but that's not always
> > > enough time: the Valgrind test, for example, are currently
> > > special-cased because they take longer, and on certain
> > > architectures where powerful hardware is not (yet) available
> > > even the basic test programs might take more than 30s to
> > > complete.
> > 
> > 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.


Regards,
Daniel
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