Re: using ninja instead of make

2015-01-04 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2015-01-01 23:16, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > On Thursday January 01 2015 22:38:32 Clemens Lang wrote: >> The only configuration system (of relevant size and adoption) that >> falls into this category is CMake. We could use ninja instead of >> make for all CMake ports, but > > That's what I had i

Re: using ninja instead of make

2015-01-04 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Friday January 02 2015 09:53:32 Mojca Miklavec wrote: > >>> How would one set things up for this? > >> > >>Modify the CMake PortGroup to use ninja. > > > > Basically by adding "-G ninja" to the configure.args, and then modify the > > variables defining the make application and arguments? I'd d

Re: using ninja instead of make

2015-01-02 Thread Chris Jones
Hi, > On 1 Jan 2015, at 10:16 pm, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > > On Thursday January 01 2015 22:38:32 Clemens Lang wrote: > > Hi > >> The only configuration system (of relevant size and adoption) that falls >> into this >> category is CMake. We could use ninja instead of make for all CMake ports

Re: using ninja instead of make

2015-01-01 Thread Clemens Lang
Hi, - On 1 Jan, 2015, at 18:42, René J.V. Bertin rjvber...@gmail.com wrote: > I wonder, has anyone tried to use ninja instead of make for building ports? I > keep hearing it's orders of magnitudes faster, though that might be true > mostly > for incremental builds. Unless you have a way to

using ninja instead of make

2015-01-01 Thread René J . V . Bertin
Hello and best for 2015! I wonder, has anyone tried to use ninja instead of make for building ports? I keep hearing it's orders of magnitudes faster, though that might be true mostly for incremental builds. Still, any performance gain could be of interest for larger ports, or even huge ones su