[uClibc] buildroot make/tar preference question

Mark Rakes mrakes at mac.com
Fri Oct 8 20:37:03 UTC 2004


On Oct 8, 2004, at 1:18 PM, Dave Dodge wrote:
> 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.
>
or just make a $(TAR_VERBOSITY) variable, and let people choose easily,
in one place.

-mark




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