create_test_serialisation: Dedup deps before joining ld_lib paths

In large monolithic codebases with many intertwined shared libraries, test
serialization can cause configuration times to balloon massively from a single
test() invocation due to concatenating the same paths many times over.

This commit adds an initial set in which all dependencies on a test target are
stored before their paths are constructed to form the test target's
LD_LIB_PATH. In testing on a particularly large codebase, this commit reduced
total configuration time by a factor of almost 8x.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/mesonbuild/backend/backends.py b/mesonbuild/backend/backends.py
index c1a72f1..0552110 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/backend/backends.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/backend/backends.py
@@ -1263,12 +1263,16 @@ class Backend:
 
             t_env = copy.deepcopy(t.env)
             if not machine.is_windows() and not machine.is_cygwin() and not machine.is_darwin():
-                ld_lib_path: T.Set[str] = set()
+                ld_lib_path_libs: T.Set[build.SharedLibrary] = set()
                 for d in depends:
                     if isinstance(d, build.BuildTarget):
                         for l in d.get_all_link_deps():
                             if isinstance(l, build.SharedLibrary):
-                                ld_lib_path.add(os.path.join(self.environment.get_build_dir(), l.get_subdir()))
+                                ld_lib_path_libs.add(l)
+
+                env_build_dir = self.environment.get_build_dir()
+                ld_lib_path: T.Set[str] = set(os.path.join(env_build_dir, l.get_subdir()) for l in ld_lib_path_libs)
+
                 if ld_lib_path:
                     t_env.prepend('LD_LIBRARY_PATH', list(ld_lib_path), ':')