ninja-build/ninja issues and pull requests

#2031 - Disable stdout buffering in real_main

Pull Request - State: closed - Opened by randomascii about 3 years ago

#2030 - Persistent mode, take 3

Pull Request - State: open - Opened by tmandry about 3 years ago - 1 comment

#2019 - Add critical path scheduler to improve build times

Pull Request - State: closed - Opened by peterbell10 about 3 years ago - 17 comments

#2018 - ninja -t deps performance regression - now 10x slower on Windows, due to ec8de9c247

Issue - State: closed - Opened by randomascii about 3 years ago - 9 comments
Labels: windows

#2008 - ninja thinks the root directory doesn't exist

Issue - State: closed - Opened by comex over 3 years ago
Labels: bug

#1997 - Ninja doesn't forward environment variables to `meson` on regeneration

Issue - State: closed - Opened by nazar-pc over 3 years ago - 13 comments

#1992 - ninja: error: loading 'build.ninja': No such file or directory

Issue - State: closed - Opened by Heliogen over 3 years ago - 4 comments

#1976 - Ninja couldn't rerun on Windows 10

Issue - State: open - Opened by mszhanyi over 3 years ago - 2 comments
Labels: windows, bug

#1966 - Using a rule variable twice in command is considered as a cycle

Issue - State: closed - Opened by jayzhuang over 3 years ago - 1 comment
Labels: bug

#1963 - Reliable ETA and progress percentage.

Pull Request - State: closed - Opened by LebedevRI over 3 years ago - 28 comments
Labels: feature

#1962 - Spurious error parsing depfiles: inputs may not also have inputs?

Issue - State: open - Opened by asutton over 3 years ago - 6 comments

#1953 - Improve incremental build: make ninja handle dynamic outputs

Pull Request - State: open - Opened by Dragnalith over 3 years ago - 9 comments
Labels: feature

#1949 - Consider the remaining job capacity in main loop

Pull Request - State: closed - Opened by Flowdalic over 3 years ago - 15 comments

#1948 - ninja: command not found after build by cmake

Issue - State: closed - Opened by zhuoran-guo over 3 years ago - 6 comments

#1943 - Provide resiliency against inputs changing during the build

Pull Request - State: closed - Opened by jdrouhard over 3 years ago - 40 comments

#1915 - Use UTF-8 on Windows 10 Version 1903, fix #1195

Pull Request - State: closed - Opened by jhasse over 3 years ago - 6 comments
Labels: windows

#1900 - Should support filename longer than 260 characters

Issue - State: closed - Opened by 6ziv almost 4 years ago - 28 comments
Labels: windows

#1897 - 1.10.2 fails to build on mingw

Issue - State: closed - Opened by ilg-ul almost 4 years ago - 6 comments
Labels: windows

#1849 - Generate directory for depfile

Pull Request - State: open - Opened by rascani about 4 years ago - 1 comment

#1845 - Add terse output mode

Pull Request - State: open - Opened by gjasny about 4 years ago - 3 comments
Labels: frontend

#1812 - Add parser for MSVC /sourceDependencies output

Pull Request - State: closed - Opened by benmcmorran over 4 years ago - 13 comments

#1806 - Support new cl.exe dependency report files

Issue - State: open - Opened by jgoshi over 4 years ago - 10 comments
Labels: windows

#1805 - Output exit code in FAILED message

Pull Request - State: open - Opened by schultetwin1 over 4 years ago - 4 comments
Labels: frontend

#1800 - Add validation nodes to ninja

Pull Request - State: closed - Opened by colincross over 4 years ago - 11 comments

#1799 - CreateProcess: %1 is not a valid Win32 application.

Issue - State: open - Opened by brechtsanders over 4 years ago - 4 comments
Labels: windows

#1732 - choking on lots of short paths (ninja: fatal: path has too many components)

Issue - State: closed - Opened by maluke over 4 years ago - 5 comments
Labels: windows, help wanted

#1728 - Please upload a "release" source tarball

Issue - State: closed - Opened by mbakke over 4 years ago - 11 comments

#1704 - Dates in the future cause "ninja: error: manifest 'build.ninja' still dirty after 100 tries"

Issue - State: closed - Opened by jplsek almost 5 years ago - 8 comments
Labels: bug

#1690 - ninja -t clean fails on built directory

Issue - State: open - Opened by tomeksowi almost 5 years ago - 11 comments

#1678 - Use std::move() when statting all files in a directory on windows, to reduce string copies

Pull Request - State: open - Opened by jonesmz almost 5 years ago - 7 comments
Labels: windows

#1668 - deleting depfile: Permission denied

Issue - State: open - Opened by fulezi almost 5 years ago - 6 comments
Labels: windows

#1660 - Method for detecting missing dependency graph edges

Issue - State: open - Opened by Timmmm about 5 years ago - 13 comments

#1652 - pip3 install ninja - ERROR: Failed building wheel for ninja

Issue - State: closed - Opened by TGunthorpe about 5 years ago - 4 comments

#1646 - Permission denied on windows

Issue - State: open - Opened by atsju about 5 years ago - 16 comments
Labels: windows, bug

#1600 - Add support for external frontends, take 2

Pull Request - State: open - Opened by EliRibble over 5 years ago - 27 comments
Labels: frontend

#1599 - ninja: error: manifest 'build.ninja' still dirty after 100 tries

Issue - State: open - Opened by kangwang1988 over 5 years ago - 25 comments

#1595 - "Re-running CMake" loop after removing build/CMakeCache.txt

Issue - State: open - Opened by blueyed over 5 years ago - 6 comments

#1588 - build_log: make sure to carry the old uid and gid

Pull Request - State: open - Opened by marcelhollerbach over 5 years ago - 13 comments

#1584 - Strip color from ninja status

Pull Request - State: open - Opened by mathstuf over 5 years ago - 15 comments
Labels: frontend

#1583 - BuildTest.WrongOutputInDepfileCausesRebuild leaves build_log and ninja_deps behind

Issue - State: closed - Opened by jhasse over 5 years ago
Labels: cleanup, help wanted

#1580 - Prevent unnecessary reconfig by not writing build.ninja to .ninja_log.

Pull Request - State: closed - Opened by donhinton over 5 years ago - 10 comments

#1571 - Prevent ninja starting new job when physical memory become low

Issue - State: open - Opened by adelplanque over 5 years ago - 8 comments
Labels: feature

#1562 - Use GoogleTest instead of our own framework

Pull Request - State: closed - Opened by jhasse over 5 years ago - 28 comments

#1546 - Allow 'ninja -t compdb' accept one target

Pull Request - State: closed - Opened by lk-chen over 5 years ago - 6 comments

#1537 - Is it possible to leave stderr messages from the compiler on stderr and not redirect them to stdout?

Issue - State: open - Opened by tpimh over 5 years ago - 86 comments
Labels: feature, frontend

#1507 - Ninja hides the exit status of failing subprocesses

Issue - State: open - Opened by jonesmz almost 6 years ago - 9 comments
Labels: feature, frontend

#1501 - NINJA_STATUS_SLEEP: Avoid too frequent status updates

Pull Request - State: open - Opened by moroten almost 6 years ago - 3 comments
Labels: frontend

#1497 - Race condition when input file is updated while compiling

Issue - State: closed - Opened by egmontkob almost 6 years ago - 3 comments

#1494 - Elision with escape seq

Pull Request - State: closed - Opened by mathstuf almost 6 years ago - 8 comments
Labels: frontend

#1493 - add a way to mark all outputs as up-to-date to avoid rebuilds

Issue - State: open - Opened by Trass3r almost 6 years ago - 13 comments
Labels: feature

#1482 - Environment variable for limiting the number of JOBS [Again]

Issue - State: open - Opened by kobalicek about 6 years ago - 77 comments
Labels: feature

#1463 - ninja: error: loading 'build.ninja': No such file or directory

Issue - State: closed - Opened by MRYangY about 6 years ago - 46 comments

#1459 - Option to use file characteristics instead of timestamps

Issue - State: open - Opened by greened about 6 years ago - 31 comments
Labels: feature

#1441 - Ninja consumes all available memory

Issue - State: closed - Opened by Alexander-- over 6 years ago - 33 comments

#1403 - C++ standard in use?

Issue - State: closed - Opened by jonesmz over 6 years ago - 35 comments

#1393 - Make path matching case insensitive on Windows

Pull Request - State: open - Opened by moroten over 6 years ago - 9 comments
Labels: windows

#1354 - Add "-m <N>" option to dynamically limit jobs

Pull Request - State: closed - Opened by maxim-kuvyrkov almost 7 years ago - 16 comments

#1352 - Support setting default -j value in a build.ninja file

Issue - State: open - Opened by RedBeard0531 almost 7 years ago - 2 comments
Labels: feature

#1328 - option to search in parent directories for build.ninja

Issue - State: open - Opened by vvuk about 7 years ago
Labels: frontend

#1302 - Running install target with root privilages breaks subsequent invocations

Issue - State: open - Opened by Psirus over 7 years ago - 18 comments

#1266 - colorful output for ninja -error

Issue - State: open - Opened by bobzhang over 7 years ago - 1 comment
Labels: frontend

#1248 - UB found by UBSAN (-fsanitize=undefined)

Issue - State: closed - Opened by matthiaskrgr over 7 years ago - 1 comment
Labels: help wanted

#1241 - Signal handling does not work as expected

Issue - State: open - Opened by dcolascione over 7 years ago - 2 comments
Labels: help wanted

#1180 - Ninja status format string from argv.

Pull Request - State: open - Opened by gkistanova about 8 years ago - 6 comments
Labels: frontend

#1175 - Heuristic: Run jobs with large inputs before jobs with small inputs

Issue - State: closed - Opened by jlebar over 8 years ago - 17 comments
Labels: feature

#1165 - Record most recent input's mtime in log file for correct dirty status computation

Pull Request - State: closed - Opened by jdrouhard over 8 years ago - 25 comments

#1162 - Long running compile commands can cause incorrect dirty status computation

Issue - State: closed - Opened by jdrouhard over 8 years ago - 8 comments
Labels: bug

#1158 - Print when commands start

Issue - State: open - Opened by paulharris over 8 years ago - 18 comments
Labels: frontend

#1145 - Need to update docs after #1144

Issue - State: closed - Opened by nico over 8 years ago

#1140 - Add GNU make jobserver client support

Pull Request - State: open - Opened by stefanb2 over 8 years ago - 90 comments
Labels: feature

#1139 - Add GNU make jobserver client support

Issue - State: open - Opened by stefanb2 over 8 years ago - 93 comments
Labels: feature

#1045 - Extend format status output - Allow to change also order of description in NINJA_STATUS

Pull Request - State: open - Opened by pali about 9 years ago - 31 comments
Labels: frontend

#1044 - Ninja does not suspend child processes on ^z

Issue - State: open - Opened by mgorny about 9 years ago - 7 comments
Labels: bug

#1026 - Print finish status for interrupted edges

Pull Request - State: open - Opened by colincross about 9 years ago - 2 comments
Labels: frontend

#1002 - Document how to set environment variables in subprocesses

Issue - State: open - Opened by evmar about 9 years ago - 14 comments

#977 - Relative subninja paths don't resolve

Issue - State: open - Opened by Qix- over 9 years ago - 18 comments

#961 - Even in dry-run mode, directories are created

Issue - State: open - Opened by sgraham over 9 years ago - 5 comments
Labels: bug

#931 - Turn duplicate rules for the same target into an error

Issue - State: closed - Opened by nico over 9 years ago - 2 comments

#929 - hash based input checking

Pull Request - State: closed - Opened by metti over 9 years ago - 21 comments
Labels: feature

#890 - Make job submission system configurable

Issue - State: open - Opened by elfring almost 10 years ago - 2 comments
Labels: feature

#833 - Feature request: continuous mode

Issue - State: open - Opened by trombonehero about 10 years ago - 4 comments
Labels: feature

#829 - largefile (LFS) issues

Issue - State: closed - Opened by glensc about 10 years ago - 19 comments

#821 - Better debug output for `multiple rules generate (...)`

Issue - State: closed - Opened by RedX2501 about 10 years ago - 6 comments

#796 - Ninja/cmake/clang does not track dependencies correctly.

Issue - State: closed - Opened by SirVer over 10 years ago - 7 comments

#744 - Suspend sub-processes when control-z is hit.

Pull Request - State: open - Opened by nicolasdespres over 10 years ago - 23 comments

#713 - Support color in NINJA_STATUS

Issue - State: closed - Opened by mathstuf almost 11 years ago - 10 comments
Labels: feature, frontend

#630 - Ninja load average -l option needs documenting

Issue - State: open - Opened by rgeary1 about 11 years ago - 8 comments

#613 - Tons of include file notices when building with Chinese version of Visual Studio 2010

Issue - State: closed - Opened by sfcheng over 11 years ago - 62 comments
Labels: windows, bug

#580 - The caret character is a special in cmd.exe on Windows

Issue - State: open - Opened by qhuo over 11 years ago - 5 comments
Labels: windows

#545 - Show subcommand output as it happens when only running one command

Issue - State: closed - Opened by dabrahams over 11 years ago - 18 comments

#511 - Fix signal handler

Issue - State: closed - Opened by elfring over 11 years ago - 12 comments

#480 - Add a `-q` "quiet" option.

Issue - State: closed - Opened by chisophugis almost 12 years ago - 9 comments
Labels: frontend

#376 - Use better logic for picking which node to build first

Issue - State: closed - Opened by evmar over 12 years ago - 17 comments
Labels: feature

#344 - Incorrect quoting of response file name when target contains spaces

Issue - State: open - Opened by zchothia over 12 years ago - 5 comments
Labels: windows

#317 - Add option to force rebuild

Issue - State: closed - Opened by mgaunard over 12 years ago - 40 comments
Labels: feature

#267 - Feature request -- print elapsed time

Issue - State: open - Opened by ramosian-glider over 12 years ago - 4 comments
Labels: feature, frontend

#174 - clang doesn't print colored diagnostics when invoked from ninja

Issue - State: closed - Opened by nico almost 13 years ago - 26 comments

#115 - Estimate time left on build

Issue - State: closed - Opened by evmar about 13 years ago
Labels: feature

#111 - Show progress when waiting

Issue - State: open - Opened by evmar about 13 years ago - 8 comments
Labels: feature, frontend

#78 - -t graph doesn't show depfile dependencies

Issue - State: open - Opened by elazarl over 13 years ago - 7 comments
Labels: bug

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