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

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

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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