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From: Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: cmake + ninja vs autotools
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 23:35:53
Message-Id: d9c8cf93-9f12-f35d-21ee-bed39acebab5@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] cmake + ninja vs autotools by "William L. Thomson Jr."
1 On 11/16/2017 02:27 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
2 > It maybe worth considering switching the default generator in the
3 > cmake-utils.eclass from the default of emake to ninja.
4 >
5 > - : ${CMAKE_MAKEFILE_GENERATOR:=emake}
6 > + : ${CMAKE_MAKEFILE_GENERATOR:=ninja}
7 >
8 > For those with cmake ebuilds you can test this out now via
9 >
10 > CMAKE_MAKEFILE_GENERATOR="ninja"
11 > inherit cmake-utils
12
13 If testing this, please use : ${CMAKE_MAKEFILE_GENERATOR:=ninja} in
14 ebuilds unless the emake generator is explicitly known not to work. This
15 will preserve user choice if they want to avoid ninja for some reason.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: cmake + ninja vs autotools Francesco Riosa <vivo75@×××××.com>