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| author | Jussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com> | 2020-12-15 21:21:50 +0000 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-12-15 21:21:50 +0000 |
| commit | d32d0d6b53dc84e35f6b26fbcfaf23a37ab6b002 (patch) | |
| tree | 437d20b8b08459dcb14289bf185ef2a2c003ecc1 /docs | |
| parent | c9685ac5612eb040961efe5dc60a91fc5aa686b4 (diff) | |
| parent | 79e2c52a15e896e46ff3cfa3ec16fbf3f132ee01 (diff) | |
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Merge pull request #7902 from bonzini/mtest-build-depends-only
mtest: only build what is needed for the tests
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diff --git a/docs/markdown/snippets/meson_test_depends.md b/docs/markdown/snippets/meson_test_depends.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..09d78f1 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/markdown/snippets/meson_test_depends.md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +## `meson test` only rebuilds test dependencies + +Until now, `meson test` rebuilt the whole project independent of the +requested tests and their dependencies. With this release, `meson test` +will only rebuild what is needed for the tests or suites that will be run. +This feature can be used, for example, to speed up bisecting regressions +using commands like the following: + + git bisect start <broken commit> <working commit> + git bisect run meson test <failing test name> + +This would find the broken commit automatically while at each step +rebuilding only those pieces of code needed to run the test. + +However, this change could cause failures if dependencies are not +specified correctly in `meson.build`. + |