[webkit-dev] Common build system (was Re: WebKit Wishes)

[Maciej Stachowiak]

On Jan 31, 2013, at 12:49 AM, Patrick Gansterer <paroga at paroga.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Am 31.01.2013 um 09:25 schrieb Mark Rowe:
> 
>>> Regarding "(b) The generated project invokes only tools that are part
>>> of the default Mac OS X install": invoking tools that are checked into
>>> the WK repo is also possible, right, since we invoke scripts now? So,
>>> hypothetically, could we check in a copy of the ninja binary and build
>>> with that?
>> 
>> Checking in binaries isn’t an option for us, and isn’t a particularly scalable approach anyway given the number of platforms that WebKit can build on. If we require an external tool as a dependency to build WebKit from source then we’d need to check in the source for the tool and build it prior to building WebKit proper. This obviously introduces more complexity so it would be preferable to keep the dependencies to a minimum.
> 
> Maybe you can check in the ninja source and compile it during build. It only requires python (and hopefully installed build tools) to get built.

Depending on how this is done it might be possible, but as I understand it gyp can build ok without ninja, so it doesn't seem strictly necessary.

Regards,
Maciej