[gentoo-user] Kernel compiles ... monitoring

[Harry]

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?

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel compiles ... monitoring

[Paul Hartman]

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.