Re: Patch for displaying progress in xterm titlebar

[Emilio Jesús Gallego Arias <egallego telefonica net>]

El mar, 02-09-2003 a las 18:57, Nick Moffitt escribió:
> begin  Jens Bech Madsen  quotation:
> > Here is a patch for gar.lib.mk which makes Garnome change the title
> > of xterms and like terminals to display what is currently happening.
> > Note that it requires that xtermset is installed (Debian package:
> > xtermset).
> > 
> > Useful if you're impatient and want to know how far your build is.
> 
> 	Cool!  I'll actually abstract out the types of messages
> sometime over the week, so that they'll use gmake functions to
> display.  That way I can put the xtermset logic in one place, and have
> it use the same data as the "color echo" stuff.  That way you can just
> do like 
> 
> 	$(call FINISHED,$(GARNAME),$*)
> 
> 	to spit out the "[stuff] finished for PACKAGE" in both color
> display and xtermset -T stuff.  
> 

Very cool, also, you should check if xtermset is on the system (ie in
Debian is a separate package) before using it, or the build system can
fail.