gn: Add recipe

gn is a commonly used build tool to generate ninja files, used
in a lot of recipes e.g. chromium, qtwebengine, perfetto, hafnium etc.
these recipes come from different layers e.g. meta-qt6/meta-arm/meta-oe

since not all layers depend on meta-oe ( meta-arm does not ), its not
a possible option.

Given the usecases, putting it in core will benefit the ecosystem
and reduce some duplication. This recipe is taken from meta-arm

Disable maybe-initialized is a gcc specific option as error

Disable format warnings as errors, it adds -Wno-format explictly in
its build system

(From OE-Core rev: e8dbf41f1f40ae3a5f9641429cad974f716f1f3e)

Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Dubois-Briand <mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc

@@ -223,6 +223,7 @@ RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-glibc-scripts = "Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-glibc-testsuite = "Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-gmp = "Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-glslang = "Jose Quaresma <quaresma.jose@gmail.com>"
+RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-gn = "Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-gnome-desktop-testing = "Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-gnu-config = "Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-gnu-efi = "Yi Zhao <yi.zhao@windriver.com>"

meta/conf/distro/include/security_flags.inc

@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ SECURITY_LDFLAGS:pn-sysklogd = ""
 # Recipes which fail to compile when elevating -Wformat-security to an error
 SECURITY_STRINGFORMAT:pn-busybox = ""
 SECURITY_STRINGFORMAT:pn-gcc = ""
+SECURITY_STRINGFORMAT:pn-gn = ""
 
 TARGET_CC_ARCH:append:class-target = " ${SECURITY_CFLAGS}"
 TARGET_LDFLAGS:append:class-target = " ${SECURITY_LDFLAGS}"

meta/recipes-devtools/gn/gn_git.bb

@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+SUMMARY = "GN is a meta-build system that generates build files for Ninja"
+HOMEPAGE = "https://gn.googlesource.com/gn/"
+LICENSE = "BSD-3-Clause"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=0fca02217a5d49a14dfe2d11837bb34d"
+
+DEPENDS += "ninja-native"
+UPSTREAM_CHECK_COMMITS = "1"
+
+SRC_URI = "git://gn.googlesource.com/gn;protocol=https;branch=main"
+SRCREV = "81b24e01531ecf0eff12ec9359a555ec3944ec4e"
+PV = "0+git"
+
+BB_GIT_SHALLOW = ""
+
+B = "${WORKDIR}/build"
+
+# Map from our _OS strings to the GN's platform values.
+def gn_platform(variable, d):
+    os = d.getVar(variable)
+    if "linux" in os:
+        return "linux"
+    elif "mingw" in os:
+        return "mingw"
+    else:
+        return os
+
+do_configure[cleandirs] += "${B}"
+do_configure() {
+    python3 ${S}/build/gen.py \
+        --platform=${@gn_platform("TARGET_OS", d)} \
+        --out-path=${B} \
+        --no-static-libstdc++ \
+        --no-strip
+}
+
+# Catch build progress from ninja
+do_compile[progress] = "outof:^\[(\d+)/(\d+)\]\s+"
+
+do_compile() {
+    ninja -C ${B} --verbose
+}
+
+do_install() {
+    install -d ${D}${bindir}
+    install ${B}/gn ${D}${bindir}
+}
+
+BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"
+
+COMPATIBLE_HOST = "^(?!riscv32).*"
+
+CFLAGS:append:toolchain-gcc = " -Wno-error=maybe-uninitialized"