On 11/16/2017 02:27 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > It maybe worth considering switching the default generator in the > cmake-utils.eclass from the default of emake to ninja. > > - : ${CMAKE_MAKEFILE_GENERATOR:=emake} > + : ${CMAKE_MAKEFILE_GENERATOR:=ninja} > > For those with cmake ebuilds you can test this out now via > > CMAKE_MAKEFILE_GENERATOR="ninja" > inherit cmake-utils
If testing this, please use : ${CMAKE_MAKEFILE_GENERATOR:=ninja} in ebuilds unless the emake generator is explicitly known not to work. This will preserve user choice if they want to avoid ninja for some reason.