get % done while installing

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kr651129

Is there any flag I can pass to force the build process to give me an estimated percentage done of the total port being installed? I've been compiling x11/gnome2 for a while and it should be done soon but I thought I'd ask while I wait.

Thanks!

Edit:
I don't expect there to be one, it's really a "just wondering" kind of question.
 
Since gnome2 ports are really large, you should run make config-recursive to set these port options in advance, it's very useful if you plan to compile overnight and save time ;)
 
There's no good way of estimating the time each port would take to compile and so there's no practical way to give an estimate how far the process has advanced at certain point.
 
Code: 
 TIME= 07 44 
 TIME= 07 45 
 TIME= 22 42 
 TIME= 22 44 
 TIME= 05 14 
 TIME= 05 15 
 TIME= 05 16 
 TIME= 07 53 
 TIME= 07 55 
 TIME= 13 28 
 TIME= 13 29 
 TIME= 18 35 
 TIME= 18 36
in /usr/ports/lang/p5-Switch, that "Time.fil" maybe, is a file I found there when I used a custom portmaster-sortof.sh. It had/has very much less functionality, but works on one port at a time and included that information, or I should phrase it that it recorded the build time in a appending/inexact methodology. So it can be done, but a shell script probably. [not using it again probably unless I lessen its keyboard interactivity to be lesser than portmaster's...]
 
I was thinking about it a little more last night, wouldn't I be able to run make config-recursive and then write a script to get what all is going to be installed. Then run pkg_info every n unit of time to see what has been installed and I could output something like

Code: 
1 of 52 installed...
2 of 52 installed...
etc

This wouldn't be the BEST way to do it since sometimes the build process steps into other ports, but it could give a high level overview I would think.
 
Use portmaster to install a port and your xterm title will be set like
Code: 
installing foo [x/yy]
 
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