[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: using Ninja in more CMake-based packages

2015-08-19 Thread Johannes Huber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Am 06/07/15 um 17:08 schrieb Michał Górny: > Hello, developers. > [snip] > Sadly, there are two problems with using Ninja: > > 1) it will not work with some packages, > [snip] > > So, what do you think? Should I start switching random packages

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: using Ninja in more CMake-based packages

2015-06-08 Thread Martin Vaeth
Franz Fellner wrote: > > IMHO a working build system > always is better than a fast but potentially broken one :) Meanwhile, it is not so clear which of the two systems is more likely the "potentially broken" one: According to some of the mentioned bugs, it appears to me that some upstreams consi

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: using Ninja in more CMake-based packages

2015-06-08 Thread Duncan
Christoph Junghans posted on Sun, 07 Jun 2015 20:08:25 -0600 as excerpted: > 2015-06-07 14:19 GMT-06:00 Justin Lecher (jlec) : >> >> On 07/06/15 22:14, Johannes Huber wrote: >> >>> Am Sonntag 07 Juni 2015, 17:08:57 schrieb Michał Górny: >>> CMake sucks a lot [but will suck less if we switch]

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: using Ninja in more CMake-based packages

2015-06-07 Thread Christoph Junghans
2015-06-07 14:19 GMT-06:00 Justin Lecher (jlec) : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 07/06/15 22:14, Johannes Huber wrote: >> Am Sonntag 07 Juni 2015, 17:08:57 schrieb Michał Górny: >>> Hello, developers. >> >> Hello Michal, >> >>> As you probably know already, CMake sucks a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: using Ninja in more CMake-based packages

2015-06-07 Thread Justin Lecher (jlec)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/06/15 22:14, Johannes Huber wrote: > Am Sonntag 07 Juni 2015, 17:08:57 schrieb Michał Górny: >> Hello, developers. > > Hello Michal, > >> As you probably know already, CMake sucks a lot. One of its more >> sucky features is that it generates

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: using Ninja in more CMake-based packages

2015-06-07 Thread Johannes Huber
Am Sonntag 07 Juni 2015, 17:08:57 schrieb Michał Górny: > Hello, developers. Hello Michal, > As you probably know already, CMake sucks a lot. One of its more sucky > features is that it generates Makefiles that fail a lot. In particular, > they fail at verbose build logs that are cluttered with u