Various test prep work #611

Job	Run time
build (meson, clang, alpine:latest, -D docs=false -D b_sanitize=none)	1m 5s
build (meson, clang, archlinux:multilib-devel, true)	1m 42s
build (meson, clang, debian:unstable, true)	2m 7s
build (meson, clang, fedora:latest)	1m 43s
build (meson, clang, ubuntu:22.04, true)	1m 43s
build (meson, clang, ubuntu:24.04, true)	1m 40s
build (meson, gcc, alpine:latest, -D docs=false -D b_sanitize=none)	1m 1s
build (meson, gcc, archlinux:multilib-devel, true)	1m 43s
build (meson, gcc, debian:unstable, true)	1m 58s
build (meson, gcc, fedora:latest)	1m 42s
build (meson, gcc, ubuntu:22.04, true)	1m 45s
build (meson, gcc, ubuntu:24.04, true)	1m 58s
build (autotools, clang, alpine:latest, -D docs=false -D b_sanitize=none)	1m 50s
build (autotools, clang, archlinux:multilib-devel, true)	2m 7s
build (autotools, clang, debian:unstable, true)	2m 32s
build (autotools, clang, fedora:latest)	2m 8s
build (autotools, clang, ubuntu:22.04, true)	1m 50s
build (autotools, clang, ubuntu:24.04, true)	2m 27s
build (autotools, gcc, alpine:latest, -D docs=false -D b_sanitize=none)	1m 50s
build (autotools, gcc, archlinux:multilib-devel, true)	2m 7s
build (autotools, gcc, debian:unstable, true)	2m 32s
build (autotools, gcc, fedora:latest)	2m 10s
build (autotools, gcc, ubuntu:22.04, true)	1m 45s
build (autotools, gcc, ubuntu:24.04, true)	2m 12s
	45m 37s

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