[Qt-creator] Build progress bar usefulness

[Carter, Nathan]

On Jul 14, 2010, at 4:12 PM, Andre Poenitz wrote:

> 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'.

Didn't make -n give the right answer here?  Just running qmake doesn't mean that make is going to have anything to do.

> Maybe you are aiming at make -B -n:

No way!  I'm aiming to ask make what it will do on the next run, so that Creator knows how many build steps *it* will expect make to do when Creator runs make.  I'm definitely not asking what make would do to "unconditionally make all targets" (man make, /-B).

Nathan