[Sugar-devel] Can't compile mozilla on sugar-jhbuild

[Bastien]

Sascha Silbe <sascha-ml-ui-sugar-devel at silbe.org> writes:

> On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 03:19:04PM +0200, Bastien wrote:
>
>> Maybe ./sugar-jhbuild could make sure that directories are clean?
> It's by design. Only changed portions of the code should get
> rebuilt. Doing a full rebuild each time would be a huge waste of
> resources.

So why did I need to "rm -rf source/mozilla source/hulahop" before
rebuilding?

>> Or maybe we could have ./sugar-jhbuild clean (similar to make clean)?
> Actually there is, but it just invokes "make clean" which usually isn't
> enough (we especially want autoconf / autogen.sh to be run again). What
> would be more useful is a "--force-checkout" to updateone (like
> sugar-jhbuild offers interactively upon encountering an error), but as
> "rm -rf <dir>" is easy enough...

Maybe I miss something here, but the hard part is not to "rm -rf <dir>"
the hard part is to know what dir to delete...

-- 
 Bastien