[cmake-developers] Ninja jumping progress indicator

[Matthew Woehlke]

On 2013-11-11 12:17, Nils Gladitz wrote:
> On 11.11.2013 17:38, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> What else can you do? Until you re-run CMake, there is no way to know
>> how many edges need to be executed. Even if ninja were to show the
>> maximum possible number of edges, that could be too small e.g. because
>> you've added a bunch of new targets since the last build.
>
> What I was hoping is that ninja could be enticed to not report its
> progress until cmake finished running (if it has to run).

That seems reasonable to me. However it's still a ninja problem; I don't 
know how/if CMake would be able to affect ninja's behavior in this respect.

(Alternatively, display something like 'inf' or 'unknown' as the number 
of remaining edges, either of which would be at least as accurate as '1'.)

I recommend moving this discussion to ninja-build at googlegroups.com 
(please re-post the original problem description with the Qt Creator bug 
report).

-- 
Matthew