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From: Adrian Perez de Castro <aperez@igalia.com>
To: Alexander Dahl <post@lespocky.de>
Cc: Eric Le Bihan <eric.le.bihan.dev@free.fr>,
	Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>,
	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>,
	buildroot@buildroot.org
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH RFC 0/2] Use Ninja as build tool for CMake-based packages
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 18:47:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220112184729.GB23006@momiji> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220112160512.GC6032@falbala.internal.home.lespocky.de>


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Hi Alexander,

On Wed, 12 Jan 2022 17:05:13 +0100 Alexander Dahl <post@lespocky.de> wrote:
 
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 03:26:16PM +0200, Adrian Perez de Castro wrote:
> > As discussed yesterday, here is a quick stab for testing and getting the
> > conversation started about using Ninja for CMake-based packages (hence the
> > missing documentation updates and the "RFC" tag in the subject :-D).
> 
> I miss some general motivation for switching from Makefile to Ninja
> generator. Can you add some reasoning or numbers to upcoming patch set
> revisions?

Ninja is generally faster, tends to make better use of parallelism, and
in my experience less likely to break in odd ways. Once I have a defconfig
with a bigger set of CMake-based packages working I'll do some numbers as
well to compare build times before and after the switch to Ninja.

Cheers,
—Adrián

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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-12 13:26 [Buildroot] [PATCH RFC 0/2] Use Ninja as build tool for CMake-based packages Adrian Perez de Castro
2022-01-12 13:26 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH RFC 1/2] package/ninja: do not require cmake Adrian Perez de Castro
2022-01-21 15:42   ` [Buildroot] [PATCH RFC v2 0/7] Use Ninja as build tool for CMake-based packages Adrian Perez de Castro
2022-01-21 15:42     ` [Buildroot] [PATCH RFC v2 1/7] package/ninja: do not require cmake Adrian Perez de Castro
2022-01-21 15:42     ` [Buildroot] [PATCH RFC v2 2/7] package/pkg-cmake.mk: use ninja instead of make Adrian Perez de Castro
2022-07-24 13:16       ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2022-01-21 15:42     ` [Buildroot] [PATCH RFC v2 3/7] package/musepack: use MUSEPACK_NINJA_OPTS Adrian Perez de Castro
2022-07-24 13:18       ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2022-01-21 15:42     ` [Buildroot] [PATCH RFC v2 4/7] package/mariadb: use HOST_MARIADB_NINJA_OPTS Adrian Perez de Castro
2022-01-21 15:42     ` [Buildroot] [PATCH RFC v2 5/7] package/kf5/kf5-extra-cmake-modules: do not build documentation Adrian Perez de Castro
2022-01-21 15:42     ` [Buildroot] [PATCH RFC v2 6/7] package/libcorrect: avoid multiple rules for same target Adrian Perez de Castro
2022-01-21 15:42     ` [Buildroot] [PATCH RFC v2 7/7] package/racehound: add patch to support building with ninja Adrian Perez de Castro
2022-01-21 15:53     ` [Buildroot] [PATCH RFC v2 0/7] Use Ninja as build tool for CMake-based packages Adrian Perez de Castro
2022-01-12 13:26 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH RFC 2/2] package/pkg-cmake.mk: use ninja instead of make Adrian Perez de Castro
2022-01-12 14:35   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2022-01-12 16:51     ` Adrian Perez de Castro
2022-01-12 14:36 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH RFC 0/2] Use Ninja as build tool for CMake-based packages Thomas Petazzoni
2022-01-12 15:09   ` Adrian Perez de Castro
2022-01-12 16:02     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2022-01-12 16:05 ` Alexander Dahl
2022-01-12 16:47   ` Adrian Perez de Castro [this message]
2022-01-12 18:55     ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2022-01-13 15:49       ` Thomas Petazzoni
2022-05-05 21:35         ` James Hilliard
2022-07-24 13:05 ` Arnout Vandecappelle

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