Copy servobuild.example to .servobuild Then just add the path of a central .cargo or .servo to the cache-dir and cargo-home-dir keys.
Mine are ./../.servo and ./../.cargo -Manish Goregaokar On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 1:26 AM, Nicholas Nethercote <n.netherc...@gmail.com > wrote: > Hi, > > I often like to work on multiple branches concurrently, to work around > the fact that Servo builds are slow. The obvious way to do this is to > just have multiple clones. That's what I do with Firefox (using > Mercurial). > > I've read that git 2.5 will have a `git checkout --to=path` command > which will support multiple working branches from a single repo > directly. (See > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6270193/multiple-working-directories-with-git/30185564#30185564 > .) > So that's nice. > > But for Servo there's the added complication of having a rustc and a > .cargo/ directory. It'd be nice to avoid having to download rustc > twice if both clones require the same version. It'd also be nice to > avoid building all the code in the .cargo/ directory twice, at least > (again) when the versions match up. IIRC there is a way to specify > that the .cargo/ directory should go somewhere else (and indeed it > used to go in $HOME by default), though I don't know what it is. > > Anyway, I'm just wondering how other people deal with this. Thanks. > > Nick > _______________________________________________ > dev-servo mailing list > dev-servo@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-servo > _______________________________________________ dev-servo mailing list dev-servo@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-servo
