From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1R8I6F-0004gl-SL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:48:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 243A221C1B8; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:48:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.23]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F3B9821C1AF for ; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:47:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 26 Sep 2011 20:47:07 -0000 Received: from g224175204.adsl.alicedsl.de (EHLO toxic.dbnet) [92.224.175.204] by mail.gmx.net (mp065) with SMTP; 26 Sep 2011 22:47:07 +0200 X-Authenticated: #351132 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19JS5spZv9JB04+NuHwYDvkicewyUYfn4a25gOnm7 V2r50iK7ZM0AtR Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:47:06 +0200 From: Jonas de Buhr To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel compiles ... monitoring Message-ID: <20110926224706.15baecc7@toxic.dbnet> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.24.4; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 4b161141cc8ff3fef2694faf6c98db66 hi harry! don't take my word for it, but i don't think there is an easy solution to this :) cmake creates makefiles which show the percentage completed in a build step. maybe you can look into how it does that and apply that to the kernel? /jonas >Harry gmail.com> writes: > >> >> 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? > >Just reporting a further bit on this: >You might think that tailing the log output and grepping for the >module names in .config would be one way, and I suppose it is, but no >directly because the compile does not appear to follow .config all the >time. > >Seems to follow closely when there modules in a row, but then jumps to >whole different sections... so still not very helpful > > > > >