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An experimental GNU make clone

7 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 3 stories, 4 comments · first 2015-07-08 · latest 2024-11-29

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  1. …declarative build system (soong) and a failed/aborted migration to bazel. Google developed kati ( https://github.com/google/kati ) which converts Makefiles to ninja build files (or should I say file), which really is huge: λ wc -l…
    comment by defer · 2024-11-29 · in The success and failure of Ninja (2020)
  2. There is kati from Android: https://github.com/google/kati/blob/master/INTERNALS.md This takes your existing Makefile(s) and produces a ninja build file. Not sure if Android still uses it or it is all soong now.
    comment by stefan_ · 2021-03-09 · in Debian Running on Rust Coreutils
  3. …with ninja instead of GNU make. The build/core makefiles and Android.mk files are read by kati (https://github.com/google/kati/blob/master/README.md), which will interpret them and write out a $OUT_DIR/build_$(TARGET_PRODUCT).ninja file,…
    comment by voltagex_ · 2015-11-04 · in Android now builds with Ninja instead of Make
  4. Somewhat hidden in the readme: A link to https://github.com/google/kati which is apparently much faster at execution Makefile code.
    comment by bla2 · 2015-09-15 · in Lisp implementation in GNU make