Something to "tail -f" during a long build?

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Sat Nov 3 17:58:38 PDT 2007


On Nov 3, 2007, at 19:05, Lloyd Zusman wrote:

> Once I've started a long build (for example, of something like  
> gcc42), is
> there a file somewhere that I can look at with "tail -f" in order  
> to watch
> the progress of the build?
>
> I know that I can start a build with the "-v" or maybe "-d" flag to  
> see
> more info, but I'm specfically wondering if there's a log file  
> somewhere
> for the non-"-v" case (for example, for a simple "port install gcc42")
> that I can look at while the build is running.

No, there's no such option (no such log file).




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