[linuxtools-dev] Rebuilding with Source Modifications

[Joel Dice <joel.dice@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I've been using the instructions on 
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Linux_Tools_Project/Eclipse_Build to build Eclipse 
on a Debian Lenny with good success.  However, I'm having trouble 
convincing the build to notice changes I've made to the source code after 
the initial build.  In particular, I've made a trivial change to
build/eclipse-R3_5_1-fetched-src/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher/src/org/eclipse/equinox/launcher/Main.java 
to make it write a message to System.out, but re-running build.sh appears 
to do nothing.

A peek at the top-level build.xml shows that it relies on several 
timestamp files to determine which stages of the build are complete.  I 
tried removing provision.sdk-stamp, which led to more logging from 
build.sh, but it still didn't recompile any source code AFAICT.

I imagine I could do a clean build, but that takes over ten minutes, which 
is prohibitive to making and testing incremental changes.  I'm hoping 
there's a better way.  Any ideas?

Thanks.