[Interest] speeding up "make clean" in qt src on OS X?

[Patrick Stinson]

Thank you for that explanation. I pulled Qt from git and don't remember the option to download specific modules but will look at the docs to find out how. Very good suggestion.

> On Apr 20, 2017, at 11:28 AM, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> Em quinta-feira, 20 de abril de 2017, às 01:34:10 PDT, Patrick Stinson 
> escreveu:
>> Running “make clean” in the root qt src dir calls xcodebuild a whole bunch
>> of times and takes a really, really long time. Is there any faster way to
>> do this? I am already excluding a lot of unnecessary builds in my configure
>> line:
>> 
>> ./configure -static -debug-and-release -nomake examples -xplatform macx-ios-
>> clang -sdk iphoneos -nomake tests
> 
> Konstantin's answer is the best way, but here's what's happening for you. You 
> used -nomake examples -nomake tests, so the Makefiles for the examples were not 
> created. But when you ran make clean, it tried to clean the examples and tests 
> too:
> 
>> cd qopenglwindow/ && ( test -e Makefile ||
>> /Users/patrick/dev/vendor/pyqt-sysroot-ios-64/src/qt5/qtbase/bin/qmake -o
>> Makefile
>> /Users/patrick/dev/vendor/pyqt-sysroot-ios-64/src/qt5/qtbase/tests/auto/gui
>> /kernel/qopenglwindow/qopenglwindow.pro )
> 
> In order to clean there, it needs to create the Makefile there first. Yes, it's 
> wasteful because obviously there's nothing to be cleaned if there's no Makefile 
> in the first place.
> 
> It's a qmake shortcoming. So there's nothing you can do to speed up make clean 
> in the top dir.
> 
> Do what Konstantin said.
> 
> One more thing: your configure line had a LOT of -skip. If you didn't want 
> those modules, why did you download them? If all you wanted was qtbase, 
> download qtbase only.
> 
> -- 
> Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
> 
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