Re: [PATCH] gitlab-ci.yml: Use the whole tree as artifacts to speed up the CI

From: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
To: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Cc: "Willian Rampazzo" <willianr@redhat.com>,
	"Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
	"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	"Wainer dos Santos Moschetta" <wainersm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitlab-ci.yml: Use the whole tree as artifacts to speed up the CI
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 10:20:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210122102022.GD3150238@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210122101833.GC3150238@redhat.com>

On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 10:18:33AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 11:07:22AM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > Currently, our check-system-* jobs are recompiling the whole sources
> > again. This happens due to the fact that the jobs are checking out
> > the whole source tree and required submodules again, and only try
> > to use the "build" directory with the binaries and object files
> > as an artifact from the previous stage - which simply does not work
> > anymore (with the current version of meson). Due to some changed
> > time stamps, meson is always trying to rebuild the whole tree.
> 
> This used to work in the past didn't it ? Did something change in
> meson to break this, or have we just not noticed before.

For to ask, could we address it by using  'meson test --no-rebuild'
perhaps ?

Regards,
Daniel
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