Improved bjam output when bulding (was: [jamboost] Re: [BBv2] Indepent target warnings for response_files)

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-15 07:00:12

On Thursday 02 June 2005 20:48, David Abrahams wrote:
> Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]> writes:
> >> Another thing (unrelated): is it possible to get rid of the msvc.compile
> >> .... etc output, and just get the unqualified name of the source file(s)
> >> during build? That would be "main.cpp" in the above output.
> >
> > No, it's not possible.
>
> Surely we could modify bjam to suppress those (optionally)?

Yes, I was just saying it's not possible out of the box. FWIW, I'd rather have 
one nice output style (at least with line that don't wrap) then several 
options. For example, we can

1. Show just the first target built, and not possibly several produced targets 
(each with long path).
2. Show targets in this style:
bin/msvc/debug/{foo.dll,foo.lib}
3. Show the file being compiled, not the result of compilation:

gcc.compile.c++ src/foo.cpp

(that would shorted the paths).

4. Remove the name of the action.
5. Add progress indicator:

10% compiling kdecore/kapplication.cpp
11% compiling kdecore/kurl.cpp

(Idea taken from http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/view/1162)
6. Something else.

Do the users have any suggestions here?

- Volodya

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Vladimir Prus
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