Re: [Ayatana-dev] Small changes to unity's build system

[Gord Allott <gord.allott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue 06 Dec 2011 07:55:35 GMT, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> On 12/05/2011 04:45 PM, Gord Allott wrote:
>>
>> Hey all, so the past week or so I've had to deal with getting unity's
>> test infrastructure into shape. which has resulted in a few changes we
>> should all be aware of.
>>
>> First of the annoyances, we now have three gtest executionables,
>> test-gtest, test-gtest-xless, test-gtest-dbus. they do what you might
>> thing, tests, tests that do not require X and tests that require dbus -
>> which are run with dbus-test-runner and our test service.
>>
>> make check will run all our tests, but we also now have the headless
>> target, so make check-headless will run only the tests that work without
>> an X server.
>>
>> Now for the good stuff, whilst I was there I noticed we have a few
>> standalone clients, which are various components of unity that run
>> without requiring the rest of unity or compiz. these are fantastic but
>> really a developer only tool, so I moved them all into a new make target
>> that is not built by default.
>>
>> The make target for these is standalone-clients, so "make
>> standalone-clients" will build them, if you want to build absolutely
>> *everything* then you need make all standalone-clients.
>>
>> by not building these by default we cut our build times in half and
>> reduce the disk space footprint by a good 500mb or so
>>
>> for the interested you can even target specific standalone clients, so
>> for example to just build the dash standalone client, its dependencies
>> and nothing else (not even the compiz plugin) you would run "make dash"
>
> This sounds awesome Gord :-)
>
> Any chance that these things are documented in the README/HACKING?
>
> Cheers,
> Mikkel
>
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