Created a file to run unit test suite with.

munit.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# Copyright 2016 The Meson development team
+
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import unittest, os, shutil
+import subprocess
+
+class LinuxlikeTests(unittest.TestCase):
+    
+    def setUp(self):
+        super().setUp()
+        src_root = os.path.split(__file__)[0]
+        self.meson_command = [os.path.join(src_root, 'meson.py')]
+        self.ninja_command = ['ninja']
+        self.common_test_dir = os.path.join(src_root, 'test cases/common')
+        self.builddir = 'unittestdir' # fixme to be unique
+        os.mkdir(self.builddir)
+
+    def tearDown(self):
+        shutil.rmtree(self.builddir)
+        super().tearDown()
+
+    def test_simple(self):
+        testdir = os.path.join(self.common_test_dir, '1 trivial')
+        subprocess.check_call(self.meson_command + [testdir, self.builddir])
+        subprocess.check_call(self.ninja_command, cwd=self.builddir)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    unittest.main()