Ninja: Fail early on when ninja build tool does not run

Diagnose failure to run `ninja --version` and abort early.  Otherwise we
end up aborting with a confusing message about ninja version "" being
too old.

Closes: #16378

5 files changed, 24 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Source/cmGlobalNinjaGenerator.cxx b/Source/cmGlobalNinjaGenerator.cxx
index 50550aa..f023a2a 100644
--- a/Source/cmGlobalNinjaGenerator.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmGlobalNinjaGenerator.cxx
@@ -564,8 +564,17 @@ bool cmGlobalNinjaGenerator::FindMakeProgram(cmMakefile* mf)
     command.push_back(this->NinjaCommand);
     command.push_back("--version");
     std::string version;
-    cmSystemTools::RunSingleCommand(command, &version, CM_NULLPTR, CM_NULLPTR,
-                                    CM_NULLPTR, cmSystemTools::OUTPUT_NONE);
+    std::string error;
+    if (!cmSystemTools::RunSingleCommand(command, &version, &error, CM_NULLPTR,
+                                         CM_NULLPTR,
+                                         cmSystemTools::OUTPUT_NONE)) {
+      mf->IssueMessage(cmake::FATAL_ERROR, "Running\n '" +
+                         cmJoin(command, "' '") + "'\n"
+                                                  "failed with:\n " +
+                         error);
+      cmSystemTools::SetFatalErrorOccured();
+      return false;
+    }
     this->NinjaVersion = cmSystemTools::TrimWhitespace(version);
     this->CheckNinjaFeatures();
   }
diff --git a/Tests/RunCMake/Ninja/NinjaToolMissing-result.txt b/Tests/RunCMake/Ninja/NinjaToolMissing-result.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d00491f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tests/RunCMake/Ninja/NinjaToolMissing-result.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+1
diff --git a/Tests/RunCMake/Ninja/NinjaToolMissing-stderr.txt b/Tests/RunCMake/Ninja/NinjaToolMissing-stderr.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1214288
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tests/RunCMake/Ninja/NinjaToolMissing-stderr.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+^CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:[0-9]+ \(project\):
+  Running
+
+   'ninja-tool-missing' '--version'
+
+  failed with:
diff --git a/Tests/RunCMake/Ninja/NinjaToolMissing.cmake b/Tests/RunCMake/Ninja/NinjaToolMissing.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tests/RunCMake/Ninja/NinjaToolMissing.cmake
diff --git a/Tests/RunCMake/Ninja/RunCMakeTest.cmake b/Tests/RunCMake/Ninja/RunCMakeTest.cmake
index 778f2c1..446dc3c 100644
--- a/Tests/RunCMake/Ninja/RunCMakeTest.cmake
+++ b/Tests/RunCMake/Ninja/RunCMakeTest.cmake
@@ -15,6 +15,12 @@ else()
   message(FATAL_ERROR "'ninja --version' reported:\n${ninja_out}")
 endif()
 
+function(run_NinjaToolMissing)
+  set(RunCMake_MAKE_PROGRAM ninja-tool-missing)
+  run_cmake(NinjaToolMissing)
+endfunction()
+run_NinjaToolMissing()
+
 function(run_CMP0058 case)
   # Use a single build tree for a few tests without cleaning.
   set(RunCMake_TEST_BINARY_DIR ${RunCMake_BINARY_DIR}/CMP0058-${case}-build)