Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 7.6

Chapter 11. General Utilities

Time-1.7

Introduction to Time

The time utility is a program that measures many of the CPU resources, such as time and memory, that other programs use. The GNU version can format the output in arbitrary ways by using a printf-style format string to include various resource measurements.

Although the shell has a builtin command providing similar functionalities, this utility is reuired by the LSB.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.6 platform.

Package Information

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/time

Installation of Time

Install Time by running the following commands: 

sed -i 's/$(ACLOCAL)//' Makefile.in                                            &&
sed -i 's/lu", ptok ((UL) resp->ru.ru_maxrss)/ld", resp->ru.ru_maxrss/' time.c &&
./configure --prefix=/usr --infodir=/usr/share/info                            &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Contents

Installed Program(s): time.

Short Descriptions

time

reports various srtatistics about an executed command.

Last updated on 2014-09-20 21:51:52 -0700