bug#79086: check-DEJAGNU should produce less noise

2025-07-24 Thread Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen
Hi, At least in connection with the Automake running in silent mode, the check-DEJAGNU target should produce no noise in the output. It probably makes sense to hide all the shell logic behind "@". This also makes it easier to detect actual errors/warnings generated by running the target. Thanks,

bug#48113: Module suggestion: timeout

2021-04-30 Thread Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen
, ...). Am Fr., 30. Apr. 2021 um 11:43 Uhr schrieb Simon Josefsson < si...@josefsson.org>: > Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen 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 c

bug#48113: Module suggestion: timeout

2021-04-30 Thread Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen
Dear Bruno, dear Simon, thank you for your replies. I understand that valgrind-tests and the proposed "timeout-tests" solution are not completely equivalent. Nevertheless, I still think that some timeout functionality provided by Gnulib would be useful. Bruno's solution ** #if HAVE_DECL_ALARM