[cmake-developers] Ninja jumping progress indicator

[Peter Kümmel]

On 11.11.2013 18:33, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> 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).
>

Will be fixed in QtCreator 3.0.

Peter