On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 10:33 AM, XeCycle <xecycle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, I build Emacs from git quite frequently, about twice a month or so. > However the PKGBUILD from AUR rebuilds everything each time, which takes > too many time I think. Perhaps Emacs is small, but I think there should > be a way to prevent too many rebuilds --- is that possible? > Don't install from the AUR, keep your local checkout wherever and just run "make" yourself, which will only build changes, with the occasional need to recompile entirely in the case of emacs. I don't see a direct way of writing a PKGBUILD that doesn't recompile everything, at least not without saving the source tree, and I'm pretty sure there isn't a standard way of doing that within arch's build system, but I could be wrong. I think it makes sense for PKGBUILDs to "recompile" everything. There are a lot of assumptions that would need to be made explicit that I doubt anyone would be too comfy with. If I'm wrong, and there's a standard way of doing this within PKGBUILDs, awesome. Assuming I'm not, I think the best you could do would be to not compile at all if the version you'd be compiling is the same as what's installed on your system, which you may already be doing.
