run 'timeout make check' from pqm?

[Robert Collins]

On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 10:19 +0800, James Henstridge wrote:
> On 01/08/07, Martin Pool <mbp at sourcefrog.net> wrote:
> > There is a utility in Ubuntu called timeout that runs a process and
> > kills it after n seconds.  Maybe we should run the tests under pqm
> > through this to guard against the occasional cases where the tests
> > hang?  I think it would be better to tell pqm to use it rather than
> > putting it into the makefile and causing trouble on machines that
> > don't have it.
> >
> >   timeout 3600 make check
> 
> Doesn't PQM already have code in place to kill the test suite if it
> doesn't generate any output for a certain length of time?  Perhaps the
> issue is to reduce that timeout.

No, thats done for launchpad by the launchpad test runner.

-Rob
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