The current 2 minute timeout is reasonable, but to exercise the test suite or induce timeout failures, we might want to make it shorter. This makes it configurable so you can run (for example): make check NOTMUCH_TEST_TIMEOUT=10s We stick with the default of 2m. Signed-off-by: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> --- test/notmuch-test | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/test/notmuch-test b/test/notmuch-test index bd3e080a..dbca39ca 100755 --- a/test/notmuch-test +++ b/test/notmuch-test @@ -32,8 +32,9 @@ rm -rf $NOTMUCH_BUILDDIR/test/test-results # Test for timeout utility if command -v timeout >/dev/null; then - TEST_TIMEOUT_CMD="timeout 2m" - echo "INFO: using 2 minute timeout for tests" + TEST_TIMEOUT=${NOTMUCH_TEST_TIMEOUT:-2m} + TEST_TIMEOUT_CMD="timeout $TEST_TIMEOUT" + echo "INFO: using $TEST_TIMEOUT timeout for tests" else TEST_TIMEOUT_CMD="" fi -- 2.20.1 _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch