Re: Making LilyPond quickly

[Phil Holmes]

make automatically only re-compiles files that depend on changed files.  Do 
you have a multi-core computer, and if so are you using the -jN option?

How long does it take to run make from scratch on your machine?

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Phil Holmes


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Winston" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2017 3:58 PM
Subject: Making LilyPond quickly


> 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?
>
> Charles
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