Hi, In AUR, there are many packages with an old-school
> mkdir build && cd build > cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr .. > make Other packages say they require ninja and use > mkdir build && cd build > cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -G Ninja .. > ninja But I think we should let the end user choose if they want make or ninja, by letting them configure their CMAKE_GENERATOR environment variable¹ Currently if someone has CMAKE_GENERATOR=Ninja in their environment, many AUR packages in the first category will fail, because eg.: > […] > -- Configuring done > -- Generating done > -- Build files have been written to: > /home/nim/.cache/paru/clone/octomap/src/octomap-1.9.8/octomap/build > make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. And on the other hand for the second case, packages say they require ninja while they would work as well with make. Therefore I think we should ask CMake to compile, no matter which generator is available on the machine and/or was chosen by the user, with: > mkdir build && cd build > cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr .. > cmake --build . Or even better > cmake -B build -S . -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr > cmake --build build Any opinions ? Should we put that on the wiki² ? Or write an RFC, like ³ ? Cheers ! Guilhem, aka. Nim65s ¹: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/envvar/CMAKE_GENERATOR.html ²: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CMake_package_guidelines ³: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/merge_requests/10
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