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[Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Chris Coulson <chrisccoulson@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Chad Miller noticed last week that Google have stopped supporting the
> GYP makefile backend for building Chromium. Running ./build/gyp_chromium
> now results in an error (see
>
> https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/build/+/9bc1c207a18ffa8284095d9350e835a4518870f6
> ).
> However, we don't use this script so makefile builds still work (sort-of).
>
> There has been 2 makefile-specific build breakages in the last couple of
> weeks that have gone unfixed - 1 of these we are now carrying a Chromium
> patch for and the other one required a build config tweak to work
> around. I plan to push a change shortly that makes Oxide build the
> Chromium parts with GYP's ninja backend instead, which is the only
> officially supported backend for building Chromium on Linux.
>

Does this buy us shorter build times by any chance?
That would be a nice side effect :)