2010/12/28 Mark Morgan Lloyd <markmll.fpc-pas...@telemetry.co.uk>: > Jonas Maebe wrote: >> >> On 28 Dec 2010, at 11:04, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: >> >>> Is it possible to get any sort of activity indication that confirms that >>> the linker is actually doing something useful, rather than just sitting >>> there locked up? >> >> No, there isn't. FPC currently does not show any output from the linker, >> but even if it did I don't think there's any parameter you can give to the >> linker to make it print a progress report. > > Thanks Jonas- it's taking about a week to compile/link in the extreme case > and something predictable- even if it was just a temporary file with a > timestamp that changed predictably- would be really useful. > > Fortunately I've got a somewhat more powerful system that I can put Solaris > on, but compared with Linux it really is a resource hog.
I did some experimenting. During linking I saw the lazarus executable growing, so you could do a ls -l on it. What also give some indication of progress is using OPT="-k-t" which outputs all input files. On my computer, linking of lazarus is well under 1 min, so not comparable. Between the last output of -k-t and the creation of new lazarus executable is some time too, maybe that is a days for you, without any output. Vincent _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal