[Cook] Progress characters

[Matthew Lee]

 From man cook:


         -STar
                 Emit progress indicators once a second.  These progress
                 indicators include

                               +   Reading the cookbook
                               -   Executing a collect function
                               *   Building the dependency graph
                               #   Walking the dependency graph
                               @   Writing fingerprint files.


Since '-' means "executing a collect function", maybe there's a shell 
script or some external command that's getting clogged up?

matt



Greg McIntyre wrote:
> I remember reading in some sort of cook manual or configuration file
> what these characters mean: #*+- which get printed across the screen
> during parsing and dependancy building. But now I cannot for the life of
> me find the definitions again!
> 
> I ask because we've been having some problems with cook, where it will
> sit there slowly printing '-' characters or '#' characters for a very
> long time, burning up processor, then finally resolve itself and
> continue happily. I've no idea what's going on. It does not seem to have
> any rhyme or reason; it happens infrequently and apparently without
> having changed the .cook files we use, it goes away again.
> 
> How should I go about diagnosing the problem? The next time it happens,
> what commands can I run to get a better idea of what's going on under
> the bonnet? Differential diagnosis, anybody?
> 
> Thanks
>