Rust: Accept samurai as ninja alternative
Samurai is a ninja-compatible build system written in C (rather than C++) and is shorter as in lines of code (not verified) so probably performs faster than ninja. It would be good to allow to specify the use of samurai as an alternative to ninja.
See similar discussion from alpine linux https://lists.alpinelinux.org/~alpine/devel/%3CBYZDB5LH4OVY.9FDVF5I3J954%40homura%3E
pickfire
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Why not RIIR? ;)
Seriously:
If it's compatible, what stops you from using it, if you like? Just make a symlink or similar.
Why do you think rust should use samurai instead of ninja?
hellow554
on 12 Dec 2019
As far as I know, ninja is only used for LLVM, so this bug report would have to go to them, not to us.
steveklabnik
on 12 Dec 2019
Yes, if LLVM gains support for other build tools (?) then we'd be happy to pipe that support through via a PR into config.toml, but otherwise I don't think this is issue is directly actionable for us, so I'm going to close. Thanks!
Mark-Simulacrum
on 12 Dec 2019
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Why not RIIR? ;)
Seriously:
If it's compatible, what stops you from using it, if you like? Just make a symlink or similar.
Why do you think rust should use samurai instead of ninja?