Re: [Toybox] Has soong replaced ninja?

2018-05-30 Thread enh
soong is a level above ninja. ninja is still the back-end. but instead of kati translating makefiles into ninja files, soong turns blueprint (.bp) files into ninja files. the way i've heard it described is that ninja is the assembly language for make-like tasks, but not something you should use

Re: [Toybox] Has soong replaced ninja?

2018-05-30 Thread Zhi An Ng
On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 10:32 AM Rob Landley wrote: > I checked > https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/toybox/+log/master > as part of the release audit and... did soong replace ninja? > https://android.googlesource.com/platform/build/soong/ doesn't say... > to my understanding,

Re: [Toybox] Has soong replaced ninja?

2018-05-30 Thread Zhi An Ng
On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 10:33 AM Zhi An Ng wrote: > > On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 10:32 AM Rob Landley wrote: > >> I checked >> https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/toybox/+log/master >> as part of the release audit and... did soong replace ninja? >>

[Toybox] off-topic: /sbin --- "static" or "system"

2018-05-30 Thread enh
do you have a canonical reference to the first unix with an /sbin? the question came up of what the "s" originally stood for. i'd always believed "static" because that's what the old-timers told me when i first came across unix in 1993. finding the first unix with /sbin might lead to a proper

[Toybox] Has soong replaced ninja?

2018-05-30 Thread Rob Landley
I checked https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/toybox/+log/master as part of the release audit and... did soong replace ninja? https://android.googlesource.com/platform/build/soong/ doesn't say... Rob ___ Toybox mailing list