> I saw a failure trying to run with LOG=trace on macosx builds.
> In the new build system configure only looks for the path to the
> time command.
>
> common/autoconf/basics.m4 :
>
> AC_PATH_PROG(TIME, time)
>
> but there is a hard coded requirement in the timing script
> that requires support for time formatting (-f) from the time
> command.
>
> common/bin/shell-tracer.sh
>
> The simple workaround is to disable the TIME command in the generated
> spec.gmk file
>
> TIME:=
>
> I think a longer term fix should test that "time -f ..." is supported
> before including the command.