On Wednesday 02 February 2005 03:16 am, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 01:48:02 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > While the wrapper could tell something about what it's doing, based on > > the command-line, it can't tell you how many times gcc (for example) > > will be invoked in the future. A wrapper for make won't be able to > > do that either, because you have to parse the makefile to get an > > accurate count. > > There was a project on the forums that did something like this. It > provided a replacement make that ran make in a pretend mode to get the > count, then ran it again. The gcc output was then redirected to a file > and all the user saw was a progress bar. It was a nice idea let down by > the simple flaw that it completely screwed up some compilations. For > example, when emerging transcode, it would build the executables, but > the make install stage didn't install them :(
Very wierd. I suppose that approach is very good though. [I had completely forgot about make's pretend mode.] -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
