There’s a trend of blog posts about faster builds, so here’s another one.

There is a trick that allows to skip most compilation from the tree, but it only works if the only changes you make are under browser/ (which should be the case for a lot of front-end development).

Get a xulrunner SDK nightly for your platform.

Unpack it with tar or unzip depending on the file you got.

Add the following to your mozconfig : ac_add_options --with-libxul-sdk=/path/to/the/unpacked/xulrunner-sdk

: Build with your favorite command.

Enjoy finishing your clobber build under 30 seconds (20 seconds here, including a 10 seconds configure).

p.m.o

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