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| author | Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@centricular.com> | 2020-02-12 03:02:09 +0530 |
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| committer | Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek.chauhan@gmail.com> | 2020-02-17 23:58:20 +0530 |
| commit | 53265e3bc23e33b91f7ef9865621bc3f71fb1f30 (patch) | |
| tree | 1858e5f6d51767f3bf4aaafa67cf4f8a6732e93a /docs | |
| parent | 130048583237c30d24b0a09fb6273acb360f2bb6 (diff) | |
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minstall: Add a new option --quiet
This is a significant speed-up on Windows because terminals are
slow to print things out.
Speed-up in gst-build on Windows:
```
meson install:
before: 5.1 seconds
after: 4.0 seconds
```
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/markdown/snippets/minstall_quiet.md | 11 |
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md index 510d443..be4d3d7 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md @@ -1718,8 +1718,11 @@ the following methods. given as an argument to be run during the install step, this script will have the environment variables `MESON_SOURCE_ROOT`, `MESON_BUILD_ROOT`, `MESON_INSTALL_PREFIX`, - `MESON_INSTALL_DESTDIR_PREFIX`, and `MESONINTROSPECT` set. All - additional arguments are passed as parameters. + `MESON_INSTALL_DESTDIR_PREFIX`, and `MESONINTROSPECT` set. + All positional arguments are passed as parameters. + + *(added 0.54)* If `meson install` is called with the `--quiet` option, the + environment variable `MESON_INSTALL_QUIET` will be set. Meson uses the `DESTDIR` environment variable as set by the inherited environment to determine the (temporary) installation diff --git a/docs/markdown/snippets/minstall_quiet.md b/docs/markdown/snippets/minstall_quiet.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3a7ff31 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/markdown/snippets/minstall_quiet.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +## New option `--quiet` to `meson install` + +Now you can run `meson install --quiet` and meson will not verbosely print +every file as it is being installed. As before, the full log is always +available inside the builddir in `meson-logs/install-log.txt`. + +When this option is passed, install scripts will have the environment variable +`MESON_INSTALL_QUIET` set. + +Numerous speed-ups were also made for the install step, especially on Windows +where it is now 300% to 1200% faster than before depending on your workload. |