Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 10071] New: Linking wireshark takes a long time
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From: bugzilla-daemon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 03 May 2014 08:15:12 +0000
Bug ID 10071
Summary Linking wireshark takes a long time
Classification Unclassified
Product Wireshark
Version Git
Hardware x86
OS FreeBSD
Status UNCONFIRMED
Severity Major
Priority Low
Component Wireshark
Assignee bugzilla-admin@wireshark.org
Reporter wireshark@mavetju.org 

Build Information:
Paste the COMPLETE build information from "Help->About Wireshark", "wireshark
-v", or "tshark -v".
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The build process of Wireshark, specially when libwireshark.so.0 gets modified,
takes a long time. When doing minor changes to the framework, this rebuild time
is annoyingly long.

I have made a configure option called --enable-buildlean which will make only
the basic dissectors like file, frame, eth, ethertype, ip, arp, icmp and tcp.
As a side effect, it also removes a lot of analyzers from the GUI.

My traintrip takes 60 minutes. A recompile after just a touch of a dissector or
a piece in the UI takes 7 minutes, most time spend in CCLD of libwireshark. 
With the --enabled-buildlean option, it takes less than 40 seconds. This makes
it worth doing development work again!

I will upload the diff to git once this bug is committed.

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