On Thu, 2014-03-06 at 09:58 +0100, Fabiano FidĂȘncio wrote: > I can bet that (almost) every contributor has a different way to setup > the environment, compile and use the fresh compiled Evolution and I'm > here to describe the way I do my setup (based on Matthew's setup) :-)
Nice instructions! I should transcribe this to a wiki page. Let me amend this with a couple more tricks... I also have three scripts (or just aliases would work too) named: autogen-eds autogen-evo autogen-ews Each of these is basically just... ./autogen.sh --prefix=$PREFIX (yadda, yadda, yadda) This is where I keep the configure options I routinely use for building evolution-data-server, evolution, and evolution-ews, respectively. It's mainly just options like --enable-this or --disable-that, etc. That way I don't have to remember them all or keep them typing them all. Also, a newcomer may not need this but just for completeness, I also have a script named 'stable', which is almost the same as 'unstable', but uses a different PREFIX ($HOME/local/stable). It too references 'common', which is why 'common' is a separate script. I use 'stable' for building our latest "stable" branch, currently gnome-3-10. It uses a different install prefix so I don't mix files from the two branches. That would be bad. Also, speaking of branches, generic git trick: For me the 'git-new-workdir' script that comes with git is a life saver! It allows you have multiple working directories for the same repo without cloning the whole repo, each checked out to a different branch. That was my biggest complaint with git when I first started using it -- that to switch branches I first had to pack up whatever I was doing in the current working directory, switch branches, and wipe the working directory clean so I don't pick up build artifacts from the other branch. But that increases the build time and slows me down. The 'git-new-workdir' script solves this, but it's not installed in /usr/bin for some reason. You have to dig it out of: /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/workdir or some similar place on your distro. Just copy the script to your $HOME/.local/bin, and do "git-new-workdir --help" to see how it works. That's my bag of tricks. Matthew Barnes _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers mailing list evolution-hackers@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers