hi harry! don't take my word for it, but i don't think there is an easy solution to this :)
cmake creates makefiles which show the percentage completed in a build step. maybe you can look into how it does that and apply that to the kernel? /jonas >Harry <hputnam3 <at> gmail.com> writes: > >> >> How can one tell how far along a kernel compile is? I can see the >> modules being built in /var/log/genkernel.log >> (Aside: Please, no hysteria about using genkernel) >> >> But I'd like to know of some way to guesstimate how much of the >> process is completed. Is there a list the compile has generated and >> is following somewhere under /usr/src/linux? Or some other way of >> knowing where the compile is in terms of percentage completed? > >Just reporting a further bit on this: >You might think that tailing the log output and grepping for the >module names in .config would be one way, and I suppose it is, but no >directly because the compile does not appear to follow .config all the >time. > >Seems to follow closely when there modules in a row, but then jumps to >whole different sections... so still not very helpful > > > > >
