On Sun, 19 Nov 2017 16:49:51 +0000 (UTC) Martin Vaeth <mar...@mvath.de> wrote:
> William L. Thomson Jr. <wlt...@o-sinc.com> wrote:
> >
> > case ${CMAKE_MAKEFILE_GENERATOR} in
> > emake)
> > DEPEND="sys-devel/make"
> > ;;
> > ninja)
> > DEPEND="dev-util/ninja"
> > ;;
>
> This is broken: Static metadata like DEPEND must not depend
> on dynamic data like environment variables which are supposed
> to change at emerge time.
I wondered about that. I guess adding to DEPEND via eclass is bad then.
> > Only 2 thus far does not sound like most things would have issues.
>
> In fact, almost nothing has issues.
That has been my experience why I brought it up.
>I am using
> CMAKE_MAKEFILE_GENERATOR=ninja in my make.conf
> since years, and the total list of packages which had
> ever failed here (out of currently ~1500 installed)
> is this:
>
> dev-util/cmake
> kde-apps/kate
> kde-apps/gwenview
> media-libs/avidemux-core
> media-libs/avidemux-plugins
> media-video/avidemux
> media-video/kaffeine
> media-video/kmplayer
> net-vpn/kvpnc
> sci-mathematics/reduce
>
> This list might appear long, but note that
That is not that long and seems to favor heavily in ninjas favor. Seems
considerably more have no issues with ninja than make.
Thanks for that information!
> > Ninja is most of the speed of meson less configure time savings
>
> ++
> For eix, the main motivation to support meson as an
> alternative build system was to be able to use ninja...
For new projects I do not want a deb or rpm I like meson +
ninja. For all other stuff I prefer cmake + ninja. Kinda best of both
worlds. At least till meson can spit out deb and rpm, not just rpm spec.
I also like how cmake updates po files. Not sure about pot file, meson
does have something there, and can update them. Just a separate
process. cmake updates po all the time, I like that :)
But either way meson or cmake, ninja is the main speed for compiling.
Though I do like the cmake make output formatting and color, etc.
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William L. Thomson Jr.
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