build: add ninja build tool and make it available for cmake

ninja is faster at building cmake packages than make, and according to reports
also more reliable at handling parallel builds
This commit includes a patch that adds GNU make jobserver support, in order to
allow more precise control over the number of parallel tasks

Enable parallel build by default for packages using ninja

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>

include/cmake.mk

@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 cmake_bool = $(patsubst %,-D%:BOOL=$(if $($(1)),ON,OFF),$(2))
 
+ifeq ($(PKG_USE_NINJA),1)
+  PKG_BUILD_PARALLEL ?= 1
+endif
+ifeq ($(HOST_USE_NINJA),1)
+  HOST_BUILD_PARALLEL ?= 1
+endif
 PKG_INSTALL:=1
 
 ifneq ($(findstring c,$(OPENWRT_VERBOSE)),)
@@ -44,6 +50,34 @@ CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH:=$(STAGING_DIR)/usr;$(TOOLCHAIN_DIR)$(if $(CONFIG_EXTERNAL_
 CMAKE_HOST_FIND_ROOT_PATH:=$(STAGING_DIR)/host;$(STAGING_DIR_HOSTPKG);$(STAGING_DIR_HOST)
 CMAKE_SHARED_LDFLAGS:=-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions
 
+ifeq ($(HOST_USE_NINJA),1)
+  CMAKE_HOST_OPTIONS += -DCMAKE_GENERATOR="Ninja"
+
+  define Host/Compile/Default
+	+$(NINJA) -C $(HOST_BUILD_DIR) $(1)
+  endef
+
+  define Host/Install/Default
+	+DESTDIR="$(HOST_INSTALL_DIR)" $(NINJA) -C $(HOST_BUILD_DIR) install
+  endef
+
+  define Host/Uninstall/Default
+	+DESTDIR="$(HOST_INSTALL_DIR)" $(NINJA) -C $(HOST_BUILD_DIR) uninstall
+  endef
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(PKG_USE_NINJA),1)
+  CMAKE_OPTIONS += -DCMAKE_GENERATOR="Ninja"
+
+  define Build/Compile/Default
+	+$(NINJA) -C $(CMAKE_BINARY_DIR) $(1)
+  endef
+
+  define Build/Install/Default
+	+DESTDIR="$(PKG_INSTALL_DIR)" $(NINJA) -C $(CMAKE_BINARY_DIR) install
+  endef
+endif
+
 define Build/Configure/Default
 	mkdir -p $(CMAKE_BINARY_DIR)
 	(cd $(CMAKE_BINARY_DIR); \

rules.mk

@@ -342,6 +342,12 @@ else
     $(SCRIPT_DIR)/rstrip.sh
 endif
 
+NINJA = \
+	MAKEFLAGS="$(MAKE_JOBSERVER)" \
+	$(STAGING_DIR_HOST)/bin/ninja \
+		$(if $(findstring c,$(OPENWRT_VERBOSE)),-v) \
+		$(if $(MAKE_JOBSERVER),,-j1)
+
 ifeq ($(CONFIG_IPV6),y)
   DISABLE_IPV6:=
 else

tools/Makefile

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ endif
 tools-y += autoconf autoconf-archive automake bc bison cmake cpio dosfstools
 tools-y += e2fsprogs fakeroot findutils firmware-utils flex gengetopt
 tools-y += libressl libtool lzma m4 make-ext4fs missing-macros mkimage
-tools-y += mklibs mm-macros mtd-utils mtools padjffs2 patch-image
+tools-y += mklibs mm-macros mtd-utils mtools ninja padjffs2 patch-image
 tools-y += patchelf pkgconf quilt squashfskit4 sstrip xxd zip zlib zstd
 tools-$(BUILD_B43_TOOLS) += b43-tools
 tools-$(BUILD_ISL) += isl

tools/ninja/Makefile

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
+
+PKG_NAME:=ninja
+PKG_VERSION:=1.10.2
+PKG_RELEASE:=1
+
+PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.gz
+PKG_SOURCE_URL:=https://codeload.github.com/ninja-build/ninja/tar.gz/v$(PKG_VERSION)?
+PKG_HASH:=ce35865411f0490368a8fc383f29071de6690cbadc27704734978221f25e2bed
+
+include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/host-build.mk
+
+CONFIGURE_ARGS:=
+ifneq ($(findstring c,$(OPENWRT_VERBOSE)),)
+  CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--verbose
+endif
+
+define Host/Configure
+endef
+
+define Host/Compile
+	cd $(HOST_BUILD_DIR) && \
+		CXX="$(HOSTCXX)" \
+		CXXFLAGS="$(HOST_CXXFLAGS) $(HOST_CPPFLAGS)" \
+		LDFLAGS="$(HOST_LDFLAGS)" \
+		$(STAGING_DIR_HOST)/bin/$(PYTHON) configure.py --bootstrap $(CONFIGURE_ARGS)
+endef
+
+define Host/Install
+	$(INSTALL_DIR) $(STAGING_DIR_HOST)/bin
+	$(INSTALL_BIN) $(HOST_BUILD_DIR)/ninja $(STAGING_DIR_HOST)/bin/
+endef
+
+define Host/Clean
+	$(call Host/Clean/Default)
+	rm -f $(STAGING_DIR_HOST)/bin/ninja
+endef
+
+$(eval $(call HostBuild))