On 21/07/15 11:16, drago01 wrote:
On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 8:28 AM, David Woodhouse <dw...@infradead.org> wrote:
On Tue, 2015-07-21 at 03:11 +0100, Alberto Ruiz wrote:
Another problem I didn't mention which is that sometime the checkout
dir makes "make" go bonkers at some point even with jhbuild build
-fac. It is quite often that I update my jhbuild setup after ages of
not touching it and I have to basically "rm -rf * && git reset -
-hard" and configure again to get the build going again. Given how
long it takes to jhbuild everything this is another extremely
annoying point that we can't ensure won't hit people. You can't leave
the thing building and go make a coffee, you have to work for the
automation system instead of the other way around. It is really a
disaster if you ask me that we enforce this on every GSoC student :/
Perhaps the ideal solution would be to decouple the dependencies. When
I'm trying to fix up some mail protocol back end in Evolution, I really
*shouldn't* need to upgrade my entire system to the very latest
glib/gtk+ and then upgrade a whole bunch of *applications* which for
some reason don't work with the new libraries.
Yeah that's the most annoying and time consuming part.
I use jhbuild and it always has to build lots of stuff that I don't
care about (ex. Webkit) ... it becomes even more annoying if something
fails to build and I have to fix things just to get to what I want to
work on.
I try to avoid that by doing "buildone whatever" (where whatever is
mutter or gnome-shell mostly).
Yep, buildone is of great help here, and from time to time there's
always a blogpost in PlanetGnome about it. This is why I proposed some
time ago to make the "buildone" behaviour be the default for the "build"
actually:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=711773
(To improve newcomers' experience and stop needing to blog about it...)
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