I recently discovered that I can build Firefox by downloading the
XULRunner SDK and using it instead of compiling everything. Clobber to
finished in under a minute. Great!
(Ignoring the not-insignificant download time.)
If I build this way I can hack the Firefox-specific UI. Not much else,
including running tests (that I've figure out anyway).
So my question is, if I want to hack something like the Add-on Manager
(I do), do I need to build everything? Why?
Is there any way that I can use the pre-compiled bits from the SDK, and
build the rest? If not, can we make one?
It seems wasteful to spend two hours (in my case) compiling a massive
chunk of code I'm not interested in (when there is a compiled version I
can download), so that I can get to a state where I can work on the bits
that I am interested in.
Sorry if this appears selfish, but I think it'd be a massive help to
those of us who are only interested in the front-end code.
GL
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