[webkit-efl] Tip of the day: building WebKit faster

[ryuan Choi]

Cool, especially I like Gangnam style. :)

Thank you

2012/11/20 Thiago Marcos P. Santos <tmpsantos at gmail.com>

> I often see people building WebKit EFL using the build-webkit even
> when they change a harmless line of code in a .cpp file.
> The fastest way of building in this case is by invoking "make"
> directly from the ./WebKitBuild/[Release|Debug]/ folder.
>
> Example:
>
> If you changed something on WebCore and is using the MiniBrowser for
> testing, you have 4 options:
>
> 1. The coward option: will build everything, somehow equivalent to
> build-webkit but probably faster.
> $ make -jN
>
> 2. The safe option: will build all the dependencies up to the binary.
> $ make MiniBrowser -jN
>
> 3. The cowboy option: in case you haven't changed the WebCore ABI, it
> will build all the deps up to WebCore.
> $ make webcore_efl -jN
>
> 4. Gangnam Style: will build and link just WebCore, fastest way
> possible. Developer is 100% sure that no ABI breakage happened. No
> dependency lookup.
> $ make webcore_efl/fast -jN
>
> N = Some people use the number of cores, others twice as much. You
> know what is best.
>
> Dedicated to Raphael Kubo which taught me the /fast one.
>
> Cheers,
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