- Fixes an issue where tasks would continue to appear active for a while
after they had finished on Unix platforms
- The latest n2 now behaves the same way as ninja when substituting
variables, so we no longer need to do the substitution ourselves.
Provides better visibility into what the build is currently doing.
Motivated by slow node.js downloads making the build appear stuck.
You can test this out by running ./tools/install-n2 then building
normally. Please report any problems, and 'cargo uninstall n2' to get
back to the old behaviour. It works on Windows, but prints a new line
each second instead of redrawing the same area.
A couple of changes were required for compatibility:
- n2 doesn't resolve $variable names inside other variables, so the
resolution needs to be done by our build generator.
- Our inputs and outputs in build.ninja need to be listed in a deterministic
order to avoid unwanted rebuilds. I've made a few other tweaks so the
build file should now be fully-deterministic.
