How do I determine how far along in the build I am

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jjthomas

I've installed FreeBSD 9.0 and I'm currently installing KDE4 from ports. I've had to correct a couple of errors along the way, but so far everything is moving along.

I know that running make all-depends-list will give me all the dependencies, but is is safe to run during an already running make script (make install clean)? I do not have a dual processor, it is just a single AMD, if that makes a difference.

I'm looking for away to see how far along I am in getting KDE4 installed. It does not have to be precise.

Thank you.

-JJ
 
jjthomas said:
I've installed FreeBSD 9.0 and I'm currently installing KDE4 from ports. I've had to correct a couple of errors along the way, but so far everything is moving along.

I know that running make all-depends-list will give me all the dependencies, but is is safe to run during an already running make script (make install clean)? I do not have a dual processor, it is just a single AMD, if that makes a difference.

I'm looking for away to see how far along I am in getting KDE4 installed. It does not have to be precise.

Thank you.

-JJ
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`make install clean` won't hurt your current build in the background unless it's dependant on KDE. For example if you where installing editors/vim you could safely run clean or distclean after vim is done building.

There is no way to know exactly how long kde4 will take. It's a really big one. I think it would be safe to let your box do it's thing for at least a day and maybe two with one without extra cores to spawn make jobs while compiling.

FWIW you can install a light windows manager and use that while kde4 is compiling. Or just install the pkg version.
 
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