[debhelper-devel] Bug#795253: Add support for Meson build system

Michael Biebl biebl at debian.org
Mon Mar 27 17:07:36 UTC 2017


Am 27.03.2017 um 18:33 schrieb Jussi Pakkanen:
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 7:24 PM, Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
> 
>> So, when running "ninja test -j1" will the -j1 be ignored?
> 
> Well yes and no. It tells Ninja to use only one parallel process.
> Which it uses to spawn the test runner which then uses
> MESON_TESTTHREADS amount of parallel processes.

Ok, os ninja does not automatically translate -j1 to MESON_TESTTHREADS=1

To understand this properly: Say I have 4 cores, does that mean that by
default I have 4 ninja processes which run mesontest, which in turn runs
4 threads, so I have 4x4=16 tests that are run in parallel?


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