On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Harry <hputn...@gmail.com> wrote: > How can one tell how far along a kernel compile is? I can see the modules > being > built in /var/log/genkernel.log > (Aside: Please, no hysteria about using genkernel) > > But I'd like to know of some way to guesstimate how much of the process is > completed. Is there a list the compile has generated and is following > somewhere > under /usr/src/linux? Or some other way of knowing where the compile is in > terms > of percentage completed?
All I can think of is: time it. Maybe you can create a wrapper script to time it, record times (for successful builds only) and measure progress based on estimated time remaining. Kind of like what genlop does with emerge logs.
