From 0c3d3afb01fd1faaa6e1db4d57af2ba82cb84ada Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Danny McClanahan <1305167+cosmicexplorer@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2022 14:43:04 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] subjective change -- prefer ninja over unix makefiles in
 cmake

---
 lib/spack/spack/build_systems/cmake.py | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/build_systems/cmake.py b/lib/spack/spack/build_systems/cmake.py
index a1ccbf317e1..09081d6d4bb 100644
--- a/lib/spack/spack/build_systems/cmake.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/build_systems/cmake.py
@@ -94,11 +94,13 @@ class CMakePackage(PackageBase):
     #: See https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/manual/cmake-generators.7.html
     #: for more information.
 
-    generator = "Unix Makefiles"
+    # generator = "Unix Makefiles"
+    generator = "Ninja"
+    depends_on('ninja', type='build')
 
     if sys.platform == 'win32':
         generator = "Ninja"
-        depends_on('ninja')
+        depends_on('ninja', type='build')
 
     # https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/variable/CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE.html
     variant('build_type', default='RelWithDebInfo',