Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen <marc.nieper+...@gmail.com> writes: > Moreover, use cases for a baked-in timeout are not restricted to tests. For > example, I may want to restrict the build time of certain components in > situations where a logical error may lead to infinite build times (a simple > example is that of a Scheme compiler used as a build tool; thanks to > Turing-completeness of Scheme macros, such a build may not terminate).
This makes me believe even stronger that the functionality ought to be provided by automake natively -- it seems the desired functionality is not only timeouts for self-tests but timeouts for all operations. Implementing this for self-tests in automake would probably be quite simple, but implementing it for all operations is probably more complicated. Maybe it should be two separate features. I have wanted timeouts for self-tests but rarely for building. If the second is more complicated to implement, maybe starting with the first will be sufficient and useful. /Simon
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