Re: controlling meson's parallelism (and some whining)

On Fri Oct 20, 2023 at 11:22 AM CDT, Tristan Partin wrote:
> On Thu Oct 19, 2023 at 12:44 PM CDT, Robert Haas wrote:
> > The obvious fix to this is to just tell 'meson test' how many
> > processes I'd like it to run. I thought maybe I could just do 'meson
> > -j8 test' but that does not work, because the option is
> > --num-processes and has no short version. Even typing -j8 every time
> > would be kind of annoying; typing --num-processes 8 every time is
> > ridiculously verbose.
>
> I submitted a patch[0] to Meson to add -j.
>
> [0]: https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/12403

You will see this in the 1.3.0 release which will be happening soon™️.

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Tristan Partin
Neon (https://neon.tech)