svn commit: r320701 - in head: bin sbin usr.bin usr.sbin

[Dan Mack]

On Thu, 6 Jul 2017, John Baldwin wrote:

> On 7/6/17 12:15 AM, Ngie Cooper wrote:
>> Author: ngie
>> Date: Thu Jul  6 04:15:30 2017
>> New Revision: 320701
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/320701
>>
>> Log:
>>   Remove SUBDIR ordering/uniquifying in *bin/Makefile
>>
>>   After the addition of SUBDIR.yes, uniquifying/ordering the SUBDIRs doesn't
>>   make a whole lot of sense, and it's in effect a half measure.
>>
>>   Ordering SUBDIR (after adding SUBDIR.yes to it) in bsd.subdir.mk is a
>>   separate change that warrants more discussion/testing, because while
>>   the SUBDIR_PARALLEL work largely fixed dependency ordering for SUBDIRs,
>>   there might be downstream FreeBSD consumers that rely on the SUBDIR
>>   ordering.
>
> FWIW, I (as a human) am used to sorted build output when watching the
> output of 'buildworld' to gauge how far it has completed.  This was a
> feature that SVN broke (CVS would walk directories in sorted order so
> you could do the same sort of guessing for 'cvs up' but you can't for
> 'svn up').  It's not a hard dependency, per se, but it would be nice to
> preserve this feature if possible.  I had noticed that it had become
> less correct "recently".
>
> -- 
> John Baldwin

This is my poor man's build progress meter:

  set n=`awk 'END {print NR}' 320734/phase_bw` # << in prog build log
  set t=`awk 'END {print NR}' 320469/phase_bw` # last good build log
  echo "scale=4;$n/$t*100" | bc -l

:-)

Dan