[kepler-dev] Problem fix when building Kepler via both Eclipse Ant + Eclipse Project

[Chad Berkley]

14 minutes!?  With ant it never takes me more than a 1.5 minutes on a 
fully clean build.  Something must be broken with the eclipse build.

chad

Derik Barseghian wrote:
> Hi Tony,
> 
> I'm also using Eclipse to build and work on Kepler, though am new to
> both. I agree, the build time for Kepler is long! I've just tried
> building before and then after following your instructions below, but
> Eclipse took the same amount of time each time--a little over 14 minutes
> (dual 3ghz machine). How much time did you save when excluding "build/"?
> I have noticed that right after a build, any consecutive builds without
> changes will occur nearly instantly...I suspect Eclipse isn't really
> doing anything when it sees nothing has changed. Was this maybe what you
> saw?
> 
> Derik
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 15:11 +1000, Tony O'Hagan wrote:
>> I found that when building Kepler+Ptolemy using Eclipse Project and Eclipse
>> Ant that you can get into what I suspect is an infinite build loop or at
>> least a very long and slow build (I ran out of patience and aborted Eclipse
>> several times).
>>
>> To avoid this you need to exclude the "build/" subdirectory from the
>> kepler/ptII build path.  I'd recommend that .classpath.default be updated to
>> reflect this change (I don't have CVS write access).
>>
>> Step by Step:
>> 1. Select Eclipse 'kepler' project 
>> 2. View project properties via the context menu.
>> 3. Select 'Java build path' 
>> 4. Select the 'Source' tab
>> 5. Under the 'kepler/ptII' source tree select the 'Excluded' tree node
>> 6. Click the 'Edit' button
>> 7. Click the lower 'Add' button beside the Exclusion patterns.
>> 8. Enter 'build/' in the pop up window.
>> 9. Save & Close all dialogs.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Tony O'Hagan
>>
>> http://itee.uq.edu.au/~tohagan
>> http://tony.ohagan.name
>>
>>
>>
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