[clang] clang documentation: Update outdated CMake Ninja support mention (PR #215803)

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Author: Brice Decaestecker (NyuB)

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<summary>Changes</summary>

CMake now supports CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS for Ninja too.

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Full diff: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/215803.diff


1 Files Affected:

- (modified) clang/docs/JSONCompilationDatabase.md (+2-2) 


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diff --git a/clang/docs/JSONCompilationDatabase.md b/clang/docs/JSONCompilationDatabase.md
index 35fdea8fc3b1a..436e2ebd97e88 100644
--- a/clang/docs/JSONCompilationDatabase.md
+++ b/clang/docs/JSONCompilationDatabase.md
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ Clang has the ability to generate compilation database fragments via
 fragments together between `[` and `]` to create a compilation database.
 
 Currently [CMake](https://cmake.org) (since 2.8.5) supports generation
-of compilation databases for Unix Makefile builds (Ninja builds in the
-works) with the option `CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS`.
+of compilation databases for `Unix Makefile` and `Ninja` builds with
+the option `CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS`.
 
 For projects on Linux, there is an alternative to intercept compiler
 calls with a tool called [Bear](https://github.com/rizsotto/Bear).

``````````

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https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/215803


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