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Subject: Re: How to know that make buildworld finished
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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.