[Qt-creator] Build progress bar usefulness

[Andre Poenitz]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 03:02:58PM -0400, Carter, Nathan wrote:
> 
> On Jul 14, 2010, at 2:56 PM, Andre Poenitz wrote:
> 
> > and running  make -n  is definitely not free, either.
> 
> This can be a lengthy process, you mean?  The good news is that it
> only needs to be run after each run of qmake.

Is it?

  .../src/plugins/fakevim > qmake
  .../src/plugins/fakevim > make -n

  make: Nothing to be done for `first'.

Maybe you are aiming at make -B -n:

  .../creator > time make -B -n | wc -l
  [...]
  2954

  real    0m50.815s
  user    0m24.330s
  sys     0m2.704s

Ok. It's an old machine. Still, I am not sure I am willing to pay 50s here.
For Qt itself the process takes 3:20 minutes.

Moreover, it fails for less straighforward project setups. In a autotools
based project this e.g. triggers a full reconfiguration of the project.

Andre'