[arch-general] Any suggestions on frequently rebuilding a git package?

[Philipp Überbacher]

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 at lavabit.com> 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