So you guys put in a work around cmake as well... Ill be happy to compile the changes needed once I get linguist building. Just curious why the change? Is there a benefit to these tools?
On Sun, Feb 6, 2022, 7:59 AM Volker Hilsheimer <volker.hilshei...@qt.io> wrote: > > On 6 Feb 2022, at 15:37, BeneschTech LLC <ch...@beneschtech.com> wrote: > > > > Thanks! I dont like ruby either lol. I found two more files that broke > as well the fixes were trivial. Havent tried to fix linguist yet. > > > > I have three big problems with the cmake and ninja combo: > > 1. Ninja uses all the cpu cores +1 by default. Unless you have a water > cooled system you will overheat on a 30k file build like this. > > You can pass -j x to ninja to limit the number of parallel jobs, e.g. > > $ ninja -j 6 > > or more flexibly > > $ ninja -j $(( $(nproc) - 2 )) > > > > 2 . Cmake does not store your last configuration command anywhere i can > find like autotools does. > > > Assuming that your issues are mostly with building Qt (because you’re > probably not using cmake for your own project), the Qt configure script > does still save the command options, so “configure -redo” will work as > before. > > > > 3 . During the build you can not see the flags being passed to the > compiler. If you have an odd configuration like I do where I use clangs > polly extension theres no easy way to see that its being used correctly. > > Have you tried > > $ ninja -v > > ? > > > Qt itself is wonderful well written software and ive only ever > encountered issues with third party code. Indulge us old guys though. We > have reasons we like traditional make and autotools. > > > Cheers, > Volker > > > > > On Sun, Feb 6, 2022, 7:22 AM Bob Hood <bho...@comcast.net> wrote: > > On 2/5/2022 4:15 PM, BeneschTech LLC wrote: > > > I have to say, not thrilled with the change to cmake/ninja, but maybe > I'm > > > just old and not "cool" LOL. > > > > You're not alone. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Interest mailing list > > Interest@qt-project.org > > https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/interest > >
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