[uClibc] buildroot make/tar preference question

Dave Dodge dododge at dododge.net
Fri Oct 8 20:18:19 UTC 2004


On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 10:13:55AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> in every .mk file in buildroot/make/, the tar command used to
> extract sources is called with '-xvf' ... i dont know about anyone
> else (and hence this e-mail), but the -v part is useless to me
> ... often times i want to watch portions of a build to make sure
> things dont break only to get it flooded with useless info by tar

As a middle ground you could have a program that outputs '.' for every
N lines of input, and pipe tar's output to it; that would make it
clear that tar was actually doing something, without consuming lots of
space in the logs.  I used this technique a year or two ago (but the
code is not readily available) and as I recall I was able to implement
it with little more than a shell function.

                                                  -Dave Dodge



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