kicad-developers team mailing list archive

[Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Christopher-

Am 2019-03-20 21:53, schrieb Christopher Buckley:
> Hello, I'm new to the dev team and am experimenting with an 
> improvement.
>
> I've done a successful build with provided sources and have revised
> the modules I believe are applicable.
>
> My initial build took about 3 hours...which is probably typical.

Yikes!  I assume you were using a single processor.  I usually use 'make 
-j#' where # is the number of cores + 1 on my system.  Typical full 
build times are 6-8 minutes.  Unless some of your build time was for 
dependencies?

> How can I speed up test build time using make targets ?

Maybe.  If you are changing eeschema, you might just run 'make eeschema' 
to rebuild only that executable.

> Can I assume that as long as I don't 'make clean' then 'make install'
> should revise the process to only rebuild affected objects?

Usually this is true.  We have a few extra headers floating around, 
which tend to increase dependencies.

> I've noticed a 'test' target...should just do 'make test' ?

'make test' will run the units tests.

Best-
Seth