RE: unGNUifying mkcheck

[Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz at cygnus dot com>]

Hmm. I am soooooo in favor of improving mkcheck. I too would like to get 
it working in a more reliable way on solaris, etc etc etc.

The problem is that I really want to do that "etime" thingy where 
the execution time of the binaries is clocked--that will give me a better 
idea of where changes impact performance, in a rough and imprecise (but 
better than the status quo) way. Of course, I haven't done this yet, so 
this is all a bit of hand-waving.

And to do this, I was thinking of using yet more "bash" isms, like the 
time shell command. I suppose tho, that this too could be abstracted out.

I suppose this only takes things farther away from working reliably on 
Solaris, which is really your point. Perhaps mkcheck should just be a 
straight "sh" script and  call sub-scripts or executables to do the weird 
stuff? (YUCK) I dunno. . . . I have run into problems with ksh being 
installed, so maybe the best bet is just "sh."

-benjamin