[Bug 765354] New: Autodetect the ninja-build binary

[GStreamer (GNOME Bugzilla)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765354

            Bug ID: 765354
           Summary: Autodetect the ninja-build binary
    Classification: Platform
           Product: GStreamer
           Version: 1.4.5
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Normal
         Component: common
          Assignee: gstreamer-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: nekohayo at gmail.com
        QA Contact: gstreamer-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
     GNOME version: ---

Building gst-transcoder
Votre branche est à jour avec 'origin/master'.
La branche courante master est à jour.
The Meson build system
Version: 0.29.0
Source dir: gst-transcoder
Build dir: gst-transcoder/build
Build type: native build
Build machine cpu family: x86_64
Build machine cpu: x86_64
Project name: gst-renderer
Native c compiler: cc (gcc 5.3.1)
Checking for function "getrusage": YES
Found pkg-config: /usr/bin/pkg-config (0.28)
Native dependency gobject-2.0 found: YES 2.46.2
Native dependency glib-2.0 found: YES 2.46.2
Native dependency gstreamer-1.0 found: YES 1.8.0
Native dependency gstreamer-pbutils-1.0 found: YES 1.8.0
Warning, glib compiled dependencies will not work until this upstream issue is
fixed: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=745754
Build targets in project: 5
cd build && ninja
/bin/sh: ninja : command not found
Makefile:2: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 127
Could not compile gst-transcoder ; result: 0


So, the problem is that the "ninja" binary is named differently in distros like
Fedora (see https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/issues/860) and the
gst-transcoder build script doesn't handle that, resulting in a thing that
won't compile even if you do have ninja installed on the system.

Could the presence of /usr/bin/ninja-build be detected and handled?

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