Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 11:01 -0400, Tom Lichti wrote:
I always do a
make clean ; make distclean
before I build. Is this strictly necessary? I'm sure it makes the
compile take longer, just wondering if I need to do this everytime or not.
Usually if anyone makes a change that requires a distclean this will
be noted in the commit message. We try to avoid this as much as
possible. But if you are compiling often you should install ccache
which will make distclean compiles much faster.
Well, I don't do it that often, because it took so long... :) I do keep
an eye on the commit list, so that makes sense.
The exception is if you are compiling a frontend or backend only, such
as in the MacOS X port, then you need to do a distclean every time.
Does that also apply if I am compiling an x86 frontend only?
Also if you find a bug then you should do a distclean followed by
a full recompile of the latest svn head before reporting the bug,
because many bug reports are on things in already fixed in the
latest code. Of course, if you find the actual piece of code that
is broken in the latest CVS and provide a patch you don't need to
do a full distclean.
Not likely that I'll be fixing any bugs, but I can usually find them (or
at least confirm them).
Tom
_______________________________________________
mythtv-dev mailing list
[email protected]
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
