I figured out the problem. There are 2 packages providing a ninja binary. ninja - Privilege escalation detection system for GNU/Linux ninja-build - small build system closest in spirit to Make
The priviledge escape detection system binary is located in /usr/sbin/ninja while the build ninja is found in /usr/bin/ninja which has less priority in the PATH variable. Uninstalling the Privilege escalation detection system helps. After the uninstallation, and using a clean repository cmake works fine with ninja (the builder). So there is a conflict when having installed both packages at the same time. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1108718 Title: Support for Ninja broken in CMake 2.8.9 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cmake/+bug/1108718/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
