Re: Making LilyPond quickly

[David Kastrup]

Charles Winston <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi developers,
>
> So far for my chords project, I’ve only been editing Scheme files, so
> I haven’t needed to build lilypond at all to test. Now I’m working on
> C++ files, so I need to compile in order to test my changes. It’s
> frustrating that compiling takes such a long time. I’m just using the
> “make” command, so I’m making all. I feel like there must be a way to
> compile only the specific things I changed. How would I do that?

make

If you have a dual-processor machine, something like

CPU_COUNT=3 make -j3

might be faster.  If you think that's slow, try

make doc

-- 
David Kastrup