Re: Abysmal state of GTK build

[Óscar Fuentes]

Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org> writes:

>> CMake has the advantage of supporting multiple "backends" for the build
>> phase, and `ninja' provides a significant speed-up over `make' on large
>> projects.
>
> Using ninja would translate into an hard dependency on python and I
> don't think this is acceptable.  Also I'm not really sure ninja is
> faster than make.

Ninja does not depend on Python, maybe you are confusing it with some
other system.

The performance advantage of ninja over make is a well stablished fact.
For LLVM the difference is quite substantial, discovering that
precipitated the phasing out of the configure&make build and the
transition to the cmake-based build after years of being a second-class
system.