NAME

whereintheworld —

print summary of make world logs

SYNOPSIS

whereintheworld [file]

DESCRIPTION

The whereintheworld command is a simple filter that reads the output of a make world and outputs only the important status lines, skipping all the compilation commands. The result is a terse summary of where the compilation is at now.

whereintheworld can be run against an existing file or it can simply read from stdin. It will continue reading from the pipe or the file until EOF at which point it will print out the few last lines of the log.

IMPLEMENTATION NOTES

whereintheworld expects the build log to be in a certain format. In particular, it recognizes lines starting with repeating dashes as ''section delimiters''. Lines starting with ''>>>'' will be considered as the names of the sections. Lines starting with ''===>'' are considered to be modules being build in the section, and will be printed on screen, but always on the same line so that they don't make the screen scroll endlessly.

See the EXAMPLES section for output samples.

whereintheworld is written in Perl and therefore will need an installed perl(1) interpreter to run. It has been tested on 5.00503 and 5.6.1.

FILES

/usr/src/world.out: whereintheworld will first try to open this file if started without argument. If missing, it will read stdin.

EXAMPLES

The most simple incantation would be:

whereintheworld

A more typical usage of the whereintheworld command:

make world 2>&1 | tee
  /var/log/build.log | whereintheworld

If you lost this terminal for one reason or another, the display can be restarted, with a little pipe magic:

(cat build.log && tail -f
  build.log ) | whereintheworld

The live output will look something like this:

--------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Rebuilding the temporary build tree
--------------------------------------------------------------
>>> stage 1: bootstrap tools
--------------------------------------------------------------
===> gnu/usr.bin/groff/font/devlatin1

with the last line changing as a new module is compiled.

DIAGNOSTICS

Should be self-explanatory.

COMPATIBILITY

The whereintheworld command has been written to parse make world logs for FreeBSD 3.x, but it should work with about any version, provided the FreeBSD folks do not change the output format too much.

HISTORY

The whereintheworld manual page example first appeared in worldtools 1.2.

AUTHORS

This manual page was written by The Anarcat ⟨anarcat@anarcat.ath.cx⟩. The whereintheworld command was written by
Bill Fenner ⟨fenner@freebsd.org⟩ in January 2000 and was modified by
The Anarcat ⟨anarcat@anarcat.ath.cx⟩ to output modules without scrolling.

BUGS

The whereintheworld command is written in perl(1) and therefore cannot be included in the base FreeBSD system.