Archive for August, 2013

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).