On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 10:00 PM, Simon Repp <[email protected]> wrote: > When I switched from Ubuntu to Fedora it took me about 2 weeks on and > off to get a successful build again, afterwards I had a full working > build but I was 50% down on motivation and 100% out of free time for > that month to get into actual coding again. Who knows what would have > happened in those two weeks if I had actually coded? (and afterwards in > that altered timeline ...!?) > > In that sense I really like the idea, though I would prefer the inverse > implementation: 'make' for the full build, 'make simple' (or so) as a > (prominently documented!!) simpler way for dev newcomers to have at hand > if the full build process is discouraging or blocking actual development.
We have `make lite`, its referenced in the linux build docs and in `make help`. http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Building_Blender/Linux/Ubuntu/CMake#Automatic_CMake_Setup Its probably worth mentioning that this can be used to get up and running quickly. > I suggest the inverse implementation because sometimes building the full > thing actually works like a charm (it did for me on Ubuntu), so you'd > get the full thing for free in that case - and initially failing and > retrying can also lead to important discoveries, for instance my 2 week > odyssey to building Blender on Fedora actually revealed a major bug in > the dependency installer script, which I could fix together with > mont29's help then. > > Either way it's implemented, thumbs up, I like it!! > > On 11/13/2014 12:31 PM, Campbell Barton wrote: >> This is mainly for Linux/BSD developers (releases remain unchanged). >> >> Its getting increasingly difficult to build Blender on Linux, (LLVM, >> ffmpeg, OpenCollada...) & these issue's can't always be fixed on our >> side. >> >> With newer developers a failed build with a cryptic error message >> (guys in #blendercoders can't even help with), is quite off putting.. >> >> Proposing a limited feature-set by default with CMake (again official >> builds from blender.org are unchanged) >> >> https://developer.blender.org/T42569 >> > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers -- - Campbell _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
