Excerpts from XeCycle's message of 2011-09-20 11:01:58 +0200: > Many thanks to all of you, I'm trying them out. > > So the point is to never clean the code tree, nor cleaning those > compiled objects. > > However I think re-configuring is not always needed, which results in > lots of rebuilding. So It's better to decide myself when it's needed? > > Philipp Überbacher <hollunder@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Excerpts from XeCycle's message of 2011-09-18 17:33:56 +0200: > >> 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? > > > > 1. Don't use -c (clean) > > I already did it. > > > 2. Comment line 47 and 48 (PKGBUILD-git.proto), uncomment if you want a > > clean build. > > Well, this is my PKGBUILD-git.proto: > > 43 # > 44 # BUILD HERE > 45 # > 46 ./autogen.sh > 47 ./configure --prefix=/usr > 48 make > > Do you mean commenting 46 & 47? Seems like my line numbering in vim is different from yours, anyway, here's what I meant: .. msg "GIT checkout done or server timeout" msg "Starting build..." # rm -rf "$srcdir/$_gitname-build" # git clone "$srcdir/$_gitname" "$srcdir/$_gitname-build" cd "$srcdir/$_gitname-build" .. Regards, Philipp