Comment on Chromium Switching from Ninja to SisoparentComments−7e1yMost likely Chromium needs to build on a system which doesn’t support Java. Like ChromeOS. That excludes Bazel, at least unless cross-compilation is supported (likely a monstrous headache for ChromeOS). It’s a good reason to rewrite Bazel in Rust.−dijit1yChromeOS is Gentoo based.It doesn't have any compiler in the distribution itself−7e1yI’ll wager if you try to emerge a JVM on ChromeOS, especially on ARM32, it will fail. Gentoo is… not great.
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Most likely Chromium needs to build on a system which doesn’t support Java. Like ChromeOS. That excludes Bazel, at least unless cross-compilation is supported (likely a monstrous headache for ChromeOS). It’s a good reason to rewrite Bazel in Rust.
ChromeOS is Gentoo based.
It doesn't have any compiler in the distribution itself
I’ll wager if you try to emerge a JVM on ChromeOS, especially on ARM32, it will fail. Gentoo is… not great.