On Thursday 28 August 2003 09:56 am, Paul D. Smith wrote: > As I pointed out in an email yesterday, there is no way to compute the > percent complete. In order to do that, you have to know the total > number of targets that you will build (or at least that could possibly > be built). > > Make knows _NONE_ of that until after it's already completed all the > builds.
That pretty much puts an end to that idea. But, I don't remember seeing an email about this. Are you sure that you sent it to the list? > Certainly it's not worth it to change that fundamental aspect of GNU > make and rewrite it virtually completely internally, just for a bit of > what is really simply eye candy. IMO, anyway. While I agree that rewriting much of GNU make simply to know how many files are going to be built isn't worth it, I don't agree that these type of features are simply "eye candy". I can think of numerous occasions where having this information would be useful. I think even perhaps if make could print out the top-level targets as they are built would be useful. Mike Gibson _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
