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Re: genautomata progress bars tweak
- From: law at redhat dot com
- To: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
- Cc: Segher Boessenkool <segher at kernel dot crashing dot org>, "Zack Weinberg" <zack at codesourcery dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 10:17:16 -0700
- Subject: Re: genautomata progress bars tweak
- Reply-to: law at redhat dot com
In message <m3y8sd85fc.fsf@gromit.moeb>, Andreas Jaeger writes:
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>law@redhat.com writes:
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>> In message <4446A179-4510-11D8-859B-000A95A4DC02@kernel.crashing.org>, Se=
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>> 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...
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>Just the process bars - or all the information that is printed? I'll
>do a first patch to remove the process bars completly now...
The rest of the data is sometimes useful -- it probably belongs under
flag control (off by default) or something like that.
jeff