From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yegor Yefremov Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:06:30 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [RFC] progress indicator In-Reply-To: <201202102355.55858.arnout@mind.be> References: <201202102355.55858.arnout@mind.be> Message-ID: <4F38C486.5030208@visionsystems.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Am 10.02.2012 23:55, schrieb Arnout Vandecappelle: > On Thursday 09 February 2012 00:32:42 Yegor Yefremov wrote: >> What about making a progress indicator, so that user always knows how >> many packages left to be built? Like Android (AOSP) does during repo >> sync: >> >> Fetching projects: 53% (127/238) Receiving objects: 22% (290/1289), 195.95 Ki >> Fetching projects: 54% (129/238) Receiving objects: 28% (361/1289), 195.95 Ki >> Fetching projects: 55% (131/238) Receiving objects: 47% (606/1289), 643.81 Ki > > crosstool-NG does it as well. > > However, I don't see how you would do it without major surgery to the > infrastructure. I fear it is inevitable. But if someone has lots of free time, it would be a nice feature. Especially on slow machines it is very nice to know how long will take to build. Yegor