Is there away to prevent eclipse from rebuilding the entire project every time I change an entry in the class path. Unfortunately, I have to play around with the build path often and rebuilding the projects takes a long time (easily 20-30 mins). Is there away to avoid this?
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A simpler way is turn off "Build Automatically" in Main Menu: Project/Build Automatically. This turns off auto-build mode, so you can trigger it manually (from same Project menu)
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that is not sufficient, because it will force a rebuild of the entire project when a I do want to make a build – hhafez Sep 07 '09 at 00:21
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How would compiler know what to do if you changing your build path? It has to check/compile every class to make sure your project still compilable. That is exactly what Eclipse does. – Eugene Ryzhikov Sep 07 '09 at 04:14
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It should do the same thing it does when you change your source code: analyze what are the actual changes and perform an incremental build based on those.
