[fpc-pascal] Compilation progress

[waldo kitty]

On 4/26/2012 15:06, Jonas Maebe wrote:
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> On 26 Apr 2012, at 17:31, OBones wrote:
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>> Is there a way get progress information output by the compiler while building a project?
>> I tried the -vt option, but I can't figure out a way to parse this and get something like current value and max while the lines are output.
>> I also tried to look in the lazarus sources but could not figure out how they do it either.
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> -vl shows progress every 100 lines. The compiler only knows the total number of lines once it reaches the end of the source file, so it does not print the total until it is finished.

is this why there is a blank line every X lines when logging via redirection? 
i've seen it but not hunted it down as to why ;)