Bug#859173: ninja-build is unuseable for package cross compilation

tags 859173 + patch severity 859173 normal user helm...@debian.org usertags 859173 + rebootstrap thanks Hi Felix, On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 04:06:54PM -0400, Nico Weber wrote: > Hi, I'm the upstream ninja maintainer. Helmut asked me to leave a short > comment here after talking on IRC. I believe

Bug#859173: ninja-build is unuseable for package cross compilation

Hi, I'm the upstream ninja maintainer. Helmut asked me to leave a short comment here after talking on IRC. I believe option 1 should be safe; ninja shouldn't change in behavior for different build, host, or target*. *: (One small deviation is Windows: ninja built on Windows behaves slightly

Bug#859173: ninja-build is unuseable for package cross compilation

Package: ninja-build Severity: wishlist Michael Biebl (Cced) asked me to look into cross compilation with meson. meson stands on the shoulders of ninja-build, so looking into ninja-build is the obvious first step. ninja-build currently is an `Architecture: any` package which is implicitly marked