On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 7:35 PM, Ben Boeckel <ben.boec...@kitware.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 19:26:11 +0100, Nicolas Desprès wrote: > > Is that variable already available or a name suggestion? I cannot find > any > > reference to it neither in the source nor in the documentation. > > It's a suggestion. > Ok, works for me too. > > This is acceptable for me since I have a custom generator that would > write > > the top build.ninja containing "subninja sub/build.ninja". The end-user > is > > supposed to run ninja from the top directory not from the top/sub/ > > directory. > > It looks like subclassing cmLocalNinjaGenerator to override some > path-related bits and it should work (though it has changed enough with > cmState that I can't tell what exactly without doing more digging). > > The hardest problem is going to be with testing. Every generate step > will also have to dump a build.ninja file out so that it can be properly > tested. > > Brad is back later this week and may have other ideas too. > > I will try to have a patch working on a helloworld project first and I will get back to you for the testing part. That would be the hardest part indeed. Thanks for your help. -- Nicolas Desprès
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