[news.eclipse.platform] Re: Incremental compilation comes and goes

[Eric Rizzo <eclipse-news@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/10/2009 1:00 PM, Miles Daffin wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Some of our users are having problems with incremental compilation
> breaking (at least not working). All are using 3.4.1 (M20080911-1700).
> Project -> Build Automatically is checked. For some it never works. For
> others it works sporadically. Has anyone else seen this? Does anyone
> have any idea what might be causing this? (I have checked the logs and
> can see nothing obvious.)

The first thing I would "check" is how the users are determining that 
"it's not working." Incremental compilation can be very fast and 
purposefully works to minimize the amount of work it has to do, so to 
some users it may seem like "it's not working."
Second, I'd check that there are no build path errors on any of the 
projects; Eclipse can't build anything in a project that has build path 
problems, so it can look like compile is "broken."

Hope this helps,
Eric