ninja on debian/squeeze

ninja has recently been uploaded to debian sid:

http://packages.qa.debian.org/n/ninja-build.html

However it needs a recent gtest to build. Here is an easy workaround:

$ apt-get source ninja-build
$ cd ninja-build-1.0.0/
$ vim debian/rules

replace :

./bootstrap.py -- --with-gtest=/usr/src/gtest/

with:

./bootstrap.py

$ export DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck

$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc -d

Et voilà !