[bitbake-devel] Run bitbake with progress bar in terminal (Ubuntu 16.04)

[Burton, Ross]

On 4 September 2018 at 17:43, Peter Kjellerstedt
<peter.kjellerstedt at axis.com> wrote:
> Bitbake already has very good support for displaying progress bars when
> building in a terminal (and uses it by default). You need to provide more
> information about what you have and what you are building:

Just to make this clear, this is what my bitbake is showing me right now:

Currently  5 running tasks (3397 of 3770)  90%
|#####################################################################
       |
0: python3-3.5.5-r1.0 do_compile - 408s (pid 13805)
1: linux-intel-4.14.66+gitAUTOINC+5c089e91b3_dd6a8b48d4-r0 do_deploy -
48s (pid 7249)
2: linux-intel-4.14.66+gitAUTOINC+5c089e91b3_dd6a8b48d4-r0
do_package_write_ipk - 48s (pid 7253)
3: linux-intel-4.14.66+gitAUTOINC+5c089e91b3_dd6a8b48d4-r0
do_package_write_rpm - 48s (pid 7255)
4: glib-2.0-1_2.58.0-r0 do_install - 17s (pid 31839)

The first line is, as should be obvious, a progress bar.

Ross