[Dart] compile output

Blezek, Daniel J (CRD) blezek at crd.ge.com
Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:01:10 -0500


Agreed,  I added a Dart Option to give verbose build information.  Testing now.
-dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Miller, James V (CRD) 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 11:56 AM
> To: Blezek, Daniel J (CRD); 'Brad King'; dart at public.kitware.com
> Subject: RE: [Dart] compile output
> 
> 
> I would prefer the build log to be displayed.  With the build 
> log I can determine how far along I am in the build (if I am 
> familar with the project).  With the dots, all I know is that 
> something is happening....
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Blezek, Daniel J (CRD) 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 11:46 AM
> To: 'Brad King'; dart at public.kitware.com
> Subject: RE: [Dart] compile output
> 
> 
> In the sweeping changes that I plan to check in later today, 
> I added a progress meter to the
> Build.tcl step.  Rather than spit out the build log (which I 
> think is irrelevant), a series of dots
> sweep across the screen indicating how much of the build log 
> has been generated.
> 
> Per your suggestion: It would require a lot more work to 
> determine when each file has been compiled
> in a platform independant way.  I know that the Microsoft 
> compile currently puts a nice line at the
> beginning of each step, and CMake could write makefiles the 
> same way, but I would rather have a look
> at the build log directly, and keep Dart's output limited to 
> status/progress information.
> 
> What do you think?
> -dan
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Brad King [mailto:brad.king at kitware.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 11:11 AM
> > To: dart at public.kitware.com
> > Subject: RE: [Dart] compile output
> > 
> > 
> > > Great suggestion!  [read stdin] isn't the best thing, as it 
> > will block
> > > until the process is done, and then spit out the whole 
> thing, but we
> > > can make this work...  I'm on it...
> > Can't we just capture the output in a Tcl variable after each 
> > step runs,
> > and then do a puts to stdout and also write it to the log?  
> This seems
> > like a simpler implementation for the same behavior.
> > 
> > -Brad
> > 
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