Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> schrieb am Di., 7. Feb. 2017 um 23:20 Uhr:

On 02/07/2017 01:47 PM, Philipp Stephani wrote:
> How about running the Emacs binary wrapped in /usr/bin/timeout?

That should work on GNU platforms. 'timeout' is not a standard program,
though, and we can't rely on its presence on non-GNU platforms.

This is only for running tests; don't we already require autotools for that as well? We could also check for it in configure using AC_CHECK_PROGS.