This could happen if ninja is manually enabled (eg. make.conf) but not installed --- eclass/cmake-utils.eclass | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/eclass/cmake-utils.eclass b/eclass/cmake-utils.eclass index 480cd09..012b13f 100644 --- a/eclass/cmake-utils.eclass +++ b/eclass/cmake-utils.eclass @@ -228,6 +228,11 @@ _generator_to_use() { case ${CMAKE_MAKEFILE_GENERATOR} in ninja) + # if ninja is enabled but not installed, the build could fail + # this could happen if ninja is manually enabled (eg. make.conf) but not installed + if ! has_version dev-util/ninja; then + die "CMAKE_MAKEFILE_GENERATOR is set to ninja, but ninja is not installed. Please install dev-util/ninja or unset CMAKE_MAKEFILE_GENERATOR." + fi generator_name="Ninja" ;; emake) -- 2.4.9