Quoting Marek Olšák (2017-03-16 18:53:59) > On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 12:11 AM, Dylan Baker <dy...@pnwbakers.com> wrote: > > Quoting Marek Olšák (2017-03-16 15:36:26) > >> Is there a way not to use ninja with meson, because ninja redirects > >> all stderr output from gcc to stdout, which breaks many development > >> environments that expect errors in stderr? > >> > >> I'm basically saying that if ninja can't keep gcc errors in stderr, I > >> wouldn't like any project that I might be involved in to require ninja > >> for building. > >> > >> Marek > > > > There is no way to use another backend on Linux, and meson will not support > > Make. Ninja is a big part of the appeal here, since it is faster than make > > is. > > Are there particular tools you know don't work with ninja? It seems like in > > the > > 7+ years since ninja came out that someone would have fixed the tools, or > > that > > some stream redirection could be used to fix the problem, "ninja 1>&2"? > > I actually read some thread about it and the conclusion seemed to be > that ninja developers don't care. I have no other option than to > believe that ninja was made for automated build bots, not for > development. > > Some editors expect that errors and only errors go to stderr and all > other garbage info goes to stdout. This is something I can't change. > > Marek
And I found this: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ninja-build/4syh2jzXWcI Which leads me to believe that they would be responsive to a patch, the core team just doesn't have a use for it. There is in fact a patch already written (linked in that thread), that just needs someone to clean it up and propose it for merge. Dylan
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