[Libreoffice] make experts: progress information?

[Bjoern Michaelsen]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 02:25:33PM +0200, Jan Holesovsky wrote:
> So I think we could do it even without patching gnumake ;-)  I'd just
> increment a global variable in in every gb_LinkTarget_add_*
> (solenv/gbuild/LinkTarget.mk) - that way we'd get the sum of how many
> 'things' to do; and then the progress would be tracked in
> gb_Output_announce (solenv/gbuild/Output.mk), by incrementing another
> variable.
> 
> Most probably it wouldn't be 100% precise, but good enough for zenity?

That would work well for full builds, but not for incremental ones.

Best,

Bjoern