isolating builds within a module

[Matt Rogers]

On Tuesday 11 November 2008 22:52:13 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> hi all..
>
> one regret i'm having with regards to putting libplasma in kdelibs is that
> now building it takes forever as cmake checks each and every lib in kdelibs
> before building.
>
> this hand holding wastes signficant amounts of time for those of us working
> on libs with dependencies on other parts of kdelibs. i imagine the case
> must be similar for, e.g., koffice and what not
>
> do the build gurus have any suggestions for how to make it possible to not
> check the other lib dependencies within the same module every single time?
> or even at all unless you build from the top level directory?
>
> if i build from inside of kdelibs/plasma, i really don't want (nor need) to
> check the build of core, ui, kio, solid, knewstuff and kfile.

make <target>/fast skips the dependency checking, where <target> is the target 
you want to build. you can get a list of targets by running 'make help'. 

Something like 'make plasma/fast' should do the trick.
-- 
Matt