Re: What does your personal GTK+ development system consist of?

[Simos Xenitellis <simos lists googlemail com>]

BJörn Lindqvist wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Simos Xenitellis
> <simos lists googlemail com> wrote:
>   
> >  1. jhbuild build gtk+        (just 16 packages)
> >  2. jhbuild shell           to get a shell with env variables properly set.
> >  3. now run your test program that is based on gtk+; will use fresh
> >  gtk+ library, the rest of the libraries come from the system
> >  4. hack gtk+, then type "make install" to refresh your build with the
> >  new changes (takes <15s on modern systems)
> >  5. go to step 3.
> >     
>
> Only FIFTEEN SECONDS?? That is amazingly quick. I thought I had a
> reasonably fast computer, but just the install step after make is
> successful takes 53 seconds. Most of that time is spent by libtool
> relinking libraries and it seems (to me) improbable that it can be
> done in less than 15 seconds.
>   
It depends what files you are working on. If you make changes on header 
files, then a whole lot of stuff will get recompiled (due to the 
dependencies), amounting to several minutes.
In my specific case however, just a single .c file had to be recompiled 
in every go, and linked with the rest of the object files to make libgtk+.

Simos