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Date:      Sun, 5 Mar 2006 19:44:18 -0800
From:      Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org>
To:        Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to know that make buildworld finished
Message-ID:  <E7956EA5-1316-45D6-A102-AE52EC6AC985@lafn.org>
In-Reply-To: <200603060325.k263P6gX037812@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
References:  <200603060325.k263P6gX037812@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>

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On Mar 5, 2006, at 19:25, Olivier Nicole wrote:

> For testing purposes, I am trying to build a quite old (read slow)
> machine. It happens that every time I start a buildworld, I will have
> to leave before the end. And next morning the shell I was using to run
> the buildworld will have terminated for some reason.
>
> So I cannot see if the make did finished successfully or not.
>
> Is there a way to check that make buildworld did finished
> successfully?


I use  nohup make buildworld > xxx &

That saves the buildworld output in xxx.  It does get fairly large  
and I seem to recall it ends by rebuilding the man indexes.



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