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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Cc: soap@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/2] cmake-utils.eclass: Make ninja default backend in EAPI >= 7
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 14:25:33
Message-Id: CAJ0EP42AQVEBD=WrPJNKo-R1O3RAzYv2PwLCZd5iKhPen1ocdQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/2] cmake-utils.eclass: Make ninja default backend in EAPI >= 7 by soap@gentoo.org
1 On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 2:35 AM <soap@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > From: David Seifert <soap@g.o>
4 >
5 > * Using the ninja backend as a default is the only way to
6 > massively improve src_compile core utilization, given that
7 > it seems unlikely that CMake will ever produce non-recursive
8 > Makefiles.
9
10 I just want to bring your attention to this bug comment, which would
11 indicate a regression in the kitware branch of ninja that I was asked
12 to merge by the Gentoo cmake maintainers.
13
14 https://bugs.gentoo.org/663384#c1
15
16 If this comment proves to have the right conclusion, I will likely
17 revert back to the vanilla upstream codebase until the kitware branch
18 can be fixed.
19
20 This may effect your plans to enable ninja by default, since it will
21 break any fortran package.

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