2 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/.SRCINFO b/.SRCINFO
index 51f7068bddf2..b78bab5026c9 100644
--- a/.SRCINFO
+++ b/.SRCINFO
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ pkgbase = gazebo
 	arch = x86_64
 	license = Apache
 	makedepends = cmake
+	makedepends = ninja
 	makedepends = doxygen
 	makedepends = ruby-ronn
 	depends = boost
diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 5263707b23b4..1d294740c7db 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ optdepends=('bullet: Bullet support'
             'libusb: USB peripherals support'
             'simbody: Simbody support'
             'urdfdom: Load URDF files')
-makedepends=('cmake' 'doxygen' 'ruby-ronn')
+makedepends=('cmake' 'ninja' 'doxygen' 'ruby-ronn')
 install="${pkgname}.install"
 source=("http://osrf-distributions.s3.amazonaws.com/$pkgname/releases/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.bz2")
 sha256sums=('c7b378a72278d4b0a750970d13e757064a9dff76fe326b799047e45486b2303d')
@@ -36,13 +36,14 @@ build() {
 
   mkdir -p build && cd build
 
-  cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE="Release" \
+  cmake .. -GNinja \
+           -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE="Release" \
            -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="/usr" \
            -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR="lib"
-  make
+  ninja
 }
 
 package() {
   cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}/build"
-  make DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install
+  DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" ninja install
 }