The catch option makes test run via 'catch'[1], which will log
backtraces whenever an abort or segmentation fault happens in any of the
subprocesses. The aim is to enable this when running in CI to help
debugging crashes that only tend to happen in CI.
While it's possible to wrap the whole meson command in 'catch', doing so
doesn't cover the KVM tests, so this option is added instead that covers
both cases.
[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/jadahl/catch/
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/2561>
They can be quite heavy, as they load up one virtual machine each. If
your system is already busy, this can easily cause them to time out
instead of finish in time, as they all fight over the same limited
amount of CPU and I/O time.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/2556>
Structure tests in a list of dictionaries, instead of requiring each
test to have its own executable(...) and test(...) statement. The
intention of this is to make it easier to add more test cases.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/2262>
This commit makes it possible to run test executables in a test
environment constructed of a virtual machine running the Linux kernel
with the virtual KMS driver enabled, and a mocked system environment
using meta-dbus-runner.py/python-dbusmock.
The qemu machine is configured to use 256M of memory, as the default
128M was not enough for the tests to pass.
Using qemu is also only made possible on x86_64; more changes are needed
for it to be runnable on aarch64, so add a warning if it was enabled on
any other architecture.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/2151>
