Thank you very much, Nicholas. Adding MOZ_DISABLE_GECKOVIEW=1 reduced the package step to only 20 seconds even I have not tried to build with Gradle yet.
Cheers, Duke On Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at 12:48:37 PM UTC+9, Nicholas Alexander wrote: > Hi Duke, > > > > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 7:33 PM, Duc H. Bui <ducbu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I am working on Fennec on Android but the packaging step takes too long time > and slows down my debugging speed. > > > > "./mach package" takes my machine 4 to 5 minutes to complete. On the other > hand, the build step is fast by reducing "./mach build" to compile the > modified directory. > > > > This is slow, even by our slow standards, and that suggests your disk is > slow. There are two things you can do to reduce your packaging speed: > > > 1) add MOZ_DISABLE_GECKOVIEW=1 to your mozconfig, like at [1]. This stops > bundling up the GeckoView libraries and might also stop building some tests > at package time -- I can't recall the details. > > > 2) build with Gradle and IntelliJ! The Gradle packaging is much, much faster > than |mach package && mach install| for incremental builds. Start at > https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Android/IDEs#IntelliJ_or_Android_Studio_with_Gradle. > > > Best, > > Nick > > [1] > https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/mobile/android/config/mozconfigs/android-api-11/l10n-nightly#21 _______________________________________________ dev-builds mailing list dev-builds@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-builds
