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

Andrea Bolognani abologna at redhat.com
Wed Sep 9 14:17:21 UTC 2020


On Wed, 2020-09-09 at 15:01 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 03:56:08PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > 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.

I think it's the other way around, isn't it? That is, 'meson test'
is a wrapper for 'ninja test' which adds a bunch of functionality on
top.

Note that this doesn't necessarily contradict your conclusion above,
I'm just trying to be sure I understand how things work :)

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization




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