From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6418 invoked by uid 1002); 6 Sep 2003 21:58:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 18776 invoked from network); 6 Sep 2003 21:58:37 -0000 Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 16:58:39 -0500 From: Brian Harring In-reply-to: <20030906224656.78bc2898.degrenier@easyconnect.fr> To: Thomas de Grenier de Latour Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-id: <459A860E-E0B5-11D7-ABF7-00306580AC5C@wisc.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Some suggestions X-Archives-Salt: 0673d52f-45ca-4ba0-a6ea-2c708e333451 X-Archives-Hash: eed52d3b5460a51ea64347e8a5394543 On Saturday, September 6, 2003, at 03:46 PM, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: > On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 21:50:42 +0200 > Marius Mauch wrote: > >> >> A accurate progress bar is nearly impossible as compile times differ >> from package to package > > Maybe maintainers could fill in the ebuilds a kind of approximative > compile time from their experience, which would be relative to a > well know reference time (a kernel compilation with default options, or > something like this). It doesn't need to be very accurate. Eh, wouldn't hold or be particularly accurate, mainly since I/O, proc speed, and available memory (let alone if another job is running in the background and hogging cycles) are too many variables (imo) to try and factor out. Someone a while back had a setup such that they parsed the makefile, figuring out the number of actions (gcc calls, ar calls, mv/cp/install commands), and tracked progress that way. Strikes me as the better way, although some packages weren't able to be parsed correctly resulting in a compilation progress reading at rather off values like 1100% and counting... ~bdh > > > -- > TGL. > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list