Newbie: How to see progress during 'build' phase?

Newbie: How to see progress during 'build' phase?

[Rodrigo Morales]

I'm downloading and building some heavy packages in Guix. Therefore, the
build phase usually takes more than 10 minutes. During that process, I
see the message a slash character that is rotating and the message
'build' phase. I wish I could see the progress of that phase?

Is it possible to show the progress or at least information of the build
phase? Is there a flag for the guix command that enables this behavior?

Re: Newbie: How to see progress during 'build' phase?

[Julien Lepiller]

When the build process for the package outputs percentages, we can know what the progress is, and guix will show a progress bar. However, many packages do not show progress, so we just spin a dash for every line of log the process outputs. If you want to see the logs and het hypnotized by it, you can use -v2.

Le 28 mars 2023 02:38:04 GMT+02:00, Rodrigo Morales <moralesrodrigo1100@gmail.com> a écrit :
>I'm downloading and building some heavy packages in Guix. Therefore, the
>build phase usually takes more than 10 minutes. During that process, I
>see the message a slash character that is rotating and the message
>'build' phase. I wish I could see the progress of that phase?
>
>Is it possible to show the progress or at least information of the build
>phase? Is there a flag for the guix command that enables this behavior?

Re: Newbie: How to see progress during 'build' phase?

[Martin Castillo]

Hi,

Am 28.03.23 um 02:38 schrieb Rodrigo Morales:
> I'm downloading and building some heavy packages in Guix. Therefore, the
> build phase usually takes more than 10 minutes. During that process, I
> see the message a slash character that is rotating and the message
> 'build' phase. I wish I could see the progress of that phase?
> 
> Is it possible to show the progress or at least information of the build
> phase? Is there a flag for the guix command that enables this behavior?

I know about guix build -v3 to enable printing the build progress. There 
might be other ways.

I don't know, whether one can enable it on the fly, after you already 
invoked the guix command without -v3.

Martin