Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > I've just kicked off an "emerge -NuD world" and will now head out > for a while. My emerge has to do, amongst others, gcc, libreoffice, > Firefox & Thunderbird. Now when I get back I'll want to know where the > emerge is up to so, in my ignorance of portage/emerge in great depth and > with only compiler output spewing up the screen, I'll fire up another > terminal, and now don't laugh, I'll do "emerge --pretend -NuD world". > That will tell me what's currently being compiled as it will be the top > thingy on the list. There has to be a better way.... > > Is there a way so that the terminal that the emerge is happening in > can display additional info? At the moment, I get: > > /home/agl: emerge > > can I get, say: > > /home/agl: emerge www-client/firefox > > by setting some config variable? Failing that is there a log file that > lists just what's been emerged, not a whole lot of "checking this, > checking that, compiling this file, linking that library, whoops, error > here..." sort of thing. > > Any thoughts, greatly appreciated, > > Andrew > >
I use the command: genlop -c That tells what is compiling and some general time info too. Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"
