From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:21:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 3/4v2] test-lib: provide lazy TIME_COMMAND prereq
Message-ID: <507DB39C.3080005@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <28ca29e59c5905ba7232dcdbe4661f37ef90cac5.1350399860.git.git@drmicha.warpmail.net>

Am 16.10.2012 17:07, schrieb Michael J Gruber:
> Some test want to use the time command (not the shell builtin) and test
> for its availability at /usr/bin/time.
> 
> Provide a lazy prereq TIME_COMMAND which tests for $TEST_COMMAND_PATH,
> which can be set from config.mak. It defaults to /usr/bin/time.

This avoids the builtin:

	command time $that_command

It works for bash, ksh, zsh, and dash (where the latter doesn't have it
as builtin).

-- Hannes