Re: [PATCH i-g-t 2/3] meson: gtkdoc support

Daniel Vetter
2018-03-06T13:50:28Z

On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 03:54:09PM -0800, Eric Anholt wrote:
> Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> writes:
>
> > Bunch of neat improvements:
> >
> > - xml generates correctly depend upon the test binaries
> > - no need to re-run autogen.sh when new chapters/functions get added,
> > all handed by meson
>
> I just rebased on top of this commit, and now my cross build takes 5
> minutes as my skylake build host slowly churns through executing the ARM
> binaries under QEMU.
>
> Is there anything we could do to avoid executing the built binaries
> during the build process?

meson 0.45 will have the dependency tracking fixed for gtkdoc and will
allow us to drop the always_build hack. I'll see whether we can do a
version check or something like that to work around this all.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation