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theothermatt
theothermatt

Reputation: 13

Specify ninja version in Meson?

I'm running Elementary OS, which is based on Ubuntu 14.04LTS. Ninja is at version 1.3.4. When running Meson, I get the error:

ninja: fatal: ninja version (1.3.4) incompatible with build file ninja_required_version version (1.5.1).

According to http://www.mariocampos.io/blog/meson,-first-impressions/ I can fix this by getting a newer version of Ninja. That's fine, I can do that. However, I prefer to keep to the software in the package repos, so my question is:

Can I tell Meson to generate a Ninja build file that doesn't require such a high version, or does Meson use Ninja features only available in 1.5.1?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 865

Answers (2)

Yasushi Shoji
Yasushi Shoji

Reputation: 4284

Can I tell Meson to generate a Ninja build file that doesn't require such a high version

No. It's hard coded in the meson source code.

does Meson use Ninja features only available in 1.5.1?

Yes. It's the Console Pool.

Upvotes: 0

bagage
bagage

Reputation: 1114

Indeed, as you can see in meson git repository, ninja minimum version was raised from 1.3.4 to 1.5.1 on December 3 2014 for the following reason:

To celebrate the new version of Ninja in Debian, start using the console pool.

One solution would be to use an older meson-build version (basically MAXIMUM version 0.21.0).

Upvotes: 1

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