[CMake] Tracking progress of CMake TAR

[Ian Cullen]

Are you calling tar via a custom command?  tar itself looks to have a 
few options to print progress:

https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_section/tar_25.html

Although none of the options seem to know the archive's size, so aren't 
able to print a completion percentage.


On 16/12/2018 21:31, Person Withhats wrote:
> When running tar via CMake (in order to use cross-platform 
> work-ability and what not) it'd be great to have a progress bar of any 
> sort.
>
> It's awkward to wait 30-60 minutes for file untarring with absolutely 
> 0 information. I'm not aware of any way to do this through CMake 
> directly, only alternative is e.g. python script that does the untar 
> for me.
>
> Any suggestions? (sorry if this is reposted, can't remember if acc was 
> approved before or after sending one time)
>

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