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Re: genautomata progress bars tweak
- From: law at redhat dot com
- To: Segher Boessenkool <segher at kernel dot crashing dot org>
- Cc: "Zack Weinberg" <zack at codesourcery dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 09:49:05 -0700
- Subject: Re: genautomata progress bars tweak
- Reply-to: law at redhat dot com
In message <4446A179-4510-11D8-859B-000A95A4DC02@kernel.crashing.org>, Segher B
oessenkool writes:
>> genautomata prints progress bars using asterisks, which interferes
>> with searching a make log for '***' to find failures, especially in a
>> highly parallel build. This makes it use dots instead.
>
>Can't we just get rid of those progress bars altogether please? They
>mess up parallel make output, and there only are progress bars for the
>relatively fast parts of genautomata anyway...
I wouldn't lose any sleep if the progress bars went away...
jeff