From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:37:11 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Reduce time for a make, possible? In-Reply-To: <20100215194451.0aee0f65@surf> (Thomas Petazzoni's message of "Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:44:51 +0100") References: <20100215194451.0aee0f65@surf> Message-ID: <87zl370wjs.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni writes: Thomas> Hello, Thomas> On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:29:48 +0100 Thomas> Tony Mozi wrote: >> When we make a change in the buildroot like add or remove an option, >> it's necessary to do 'make clean' then a 'make'. Is it possible to >> reduce the time of this operation which is very long? Thomas> For the moment, it is not possible safely. However, during the Thomas> last Buildroot Working Day last week, this was one of the main Thomas> topic that we discussed. So it's definitely not a feature that Thomas> will be available in the coming weeks, but pretty likely in the Thomas> coming months or so. Yes. For most situations you can safely add new applications without rebuilding everything (the problem is with libraries as other libs/programs might want to enable support for that library). Removing stuff is more difficult, so there you need to rebuild. Once the external toolchain stuff is more robust and we have better package removal/addition tracking things will get better. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard