On Fri, 06 Apr 2018 10:08:24 -0400 Kyle Edwards <kyle.edwa...@kitware.com> wrote: > Package: debhelper > Version: 11.1.6 > Severity: wishlist > > Dear Maintainer, > > Large projects which use CMake, such as VTK, take a long time to build > with the Makefile generator, and see significant build time improvements > when being built with the Ninja generator instead. Please consider > adding support for using the Ninja generator with CMake. Perhaps > something like: > > $ dh --buildsystem=cmakeninja > > I realize this may be tricky given how the buildsystems are implemented > in debhelper. I don't know much about Perl, but if it supports multiple > inheritance, would it be possible to make a class like "cmakebase" and > then have "cmake" and "cmakeninja" inherit from both "cmakebase" and > then "makefile" and "ninja" respectively? > > [...]
Hi Kyle, Thanks for the suggestion. How will debhelper know whether cmake will generate a ninja.build and not a Makefile? Is that something debhelper decides 100% (via the -G) parameter? Or does the project specify a default in CMakeLists.txt and debhelper should respect that or ...? If debhelper decides it: How likely is it that a random CMake project today will work with ninja instead of make? Thanks, ~Niels
