[cmake-developers] The "Ninja" generator errors out for any project that enables Fortran

[Mathias Gaunard]

On 14/06/2013 03:24, Bill Hoffman wrote:
> On 6/13/2013 7:35 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>>
>> If anyone here is game to do a quick fix for the "Ninja" generator so
>> that is supports Fortran, I would be happy to help out by testing the
>> fix using the build_projects project on the Linux and Wine platforms
>> that are accessible to me.
> There is no quick fix.  The fortran depend issue is not easily solved
> which is why it is not yet implemented.  It will take several weeks of
> development and some possible changes to ninja to accomplish this task.
>   Sadly, I have not found a funding source or developer willing to
> support this effort.

Even for C/C++, it could be interesting to have an option to make Ninja 
use pre-generated dependencies from the CMake scanner instead of special 
gcc commands to automagically generate them.

The code to deal with this already exists in the Make generator.