Control: tags -1 pending Kyle Edwards: > [...] > > Just tested it, and I like it. >
Thanks. :) I am glad it worked. :) > One thing I did notice is that if your project doesn't have tests, you > have to turn on nocheck when switching to cmake+ninja, because the ninja > buildsystem fails if no "test" target exists (the makefile buildsystem > seems to silently ignore the failure.) I don't think this is a > deal-breaker, but it is something to keep in mind when switching to > ninja. Perhaps this could be filed as a separate bug. > Mmm, the reason why make does not fail is that we have a crude (but functional) way to tell if a makefile target exists. But we do not have that for ninja and honestly, I have no idea how we would make it either. If you have an idea, I would be happy to look at implementing it. > Thank you for the quick response! I hope to see this in debhelper soon. > > Kyle Indeed; merged for debhelper 11.2. Thanks, ~Niels