Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH RFC 1/1] package/wpewebkit: use ninja for faster builds

[Adrian Perez de Castro <aperez@igalia.com>]

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Hi Yann, all,

On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 18:09:18 +0100 "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> wrote:
> Adrian, All,
> 
> On 2022-01-11 16:55 +0200, Adrian Perez de Castro spake thusly:
> > Instruct CMake to use the Ninja generator, and override build/install
> > commands to use Ninja instead, which results in faster builds. The
> > host-ninja package is required to build some of the dependencies used
> > by wpewebkit (e.g. libepoxy) so in practice this is not introducing
> > a new host dependency that would slow down the build.
> 
> As discussed on IRC, we concluded that a better option is to make the
> cmake-package infrastructure in Buildroot ninja-aware, and that you were
> going to have a look at it. Thanks! :-)

Here goes: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/buildroot/list/?series=280723

> So, I've marked this patch as rejected in patchwork.

Good, as said on IRC, I also agree it worth it to take the long route and
try to get all CMake packages (or most, if all is not possible) working
with Ninja :)

Cheers,
—Adrián

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