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[Chris Coulson <chrisccoulson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/05/14 06:38, Olivier Tilloy wrote:
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> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Chris Coulson
> <chrisccoulson@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:chrisccoulson@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
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>     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.
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>
> Does this buy us shorter build times by any chance?
> That would be a nice side effect :)
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>
Hi,

I wouldn't expect it to have much of an effect on overall build times,
but it has drastically improved the no-op build time (it's less than 1
second for me now).

- Chris