Faster builds for Firefox front-end developers with make
There's a trend of blog posts about faster builds, so here's another one.
There is a trick that allows to skip most compilation from the tree, but it only works if the only changes you make are under browser/
(which should be the case for a lot of front-end development).
- Get a xulrunner SDK nightly for your platform.
- Unpack it with tar or unzip depending on the file you got.
- Add the following to your
mozconfig
:
ac_add_options --with-libxul-sdk=/path/to/the/unpacked/xulrunner-sdk
- Build with your favorite command.
- Enjoy finishing your clobber build under 30 seconds (20 seconds here, including a 10 seconds configure).
2013-08-08 09:54:32+0900
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2013-08-09 13:20:30+0900
This mostly works for Thunderbird and SeaMonkey too although you also need to add ac_add_options –enable-incomplete-external-linkage (note that this option breaks from time to time, so ymmv).
2013-09-19 16:13:36+0900
Mike, how bout nother oh-not-so-quick but “New manually-made upstream release” of Iceape, ple-e-e-e-ase?!
Thanks! #705889