Tommi Pirinen said, 

> A bit bloated solution I had in mind once was to create a stubmake 
> program that would walk through the make process, but instead of 
> actually executing the compiler commands it would count them for the 
> progress bar to use, and because it'd simulate typical make process it 
> would always know the exact amount of commands the make process would 
> execute in the current specific settings.

Like this? 
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=42346&highlight=emergeprogress&sid=3c66f1e0ff64d1c988e565486c467cae

I used it for a while and it provided useful feedback of the progress of
lengthy compiles, but it also caused problems with a number of packages
so I've now removed it.


Cheers

Neil
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