On 3 Nov 2007, at 20:58, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Nov 3, 2007, at 19:05, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
Once I've started a long build (for example, of something like gcc42), is there a file somewhere that I can look at with "tail -f" in order to watch the progress of the build?
I know that I can start a build with the "-v" or maybe "-d" flag to see more info, but I'm specfically wondering if there's a log file somewhere for the non-"-v" case (for example, for a simple "port install gcc42") that I can look at while the build is running.
No, there's no such option (no such log file).
This is what I do: 1) sudo port install whatever > ~/whatever.install.log 2>&1 2) Ctrl+Z 3) open ~/whatever.install.log 4) fg The end result is that I have Console.app open with the log file while port is running in the Terminal. Randall Wood rhwood@mac.com http://shyramblings.blogspot.com "The rules are simple: The ball is round. The game lasts 90 minutes. All the rest is just philosophy."