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| author | Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> | 2018-06-18 12:14:24 -0700 |
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| committer | Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> | 2018-06-18 12:14:24 -0700 |
| commit | ef02c9fd1a6bdafebc2bba58a551ec11e29bd394 (patch) | |
| tree | 6d449f44290ca3506af22e8851118b39028c9c7c /test/README | |
| parent | e347754df7b8ec6a6e5d1f1a7749f5a19746d55f (diff) | |
| parent | 5bdc344780faabbc91b7e55306b2071dffb44fa2 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-ef02c9fd1a6bdafebc2bba58a551ec11e29bd394.tar.gz | |
Merge from origin/emacs-26
5bdc344 ; Reduce quoting for SELECTOR in 'make -C test' (Bug#31744)
b6b793b ; test/Makefile.in: Add TEST_INTERACTIVE option (Bug#31744).
1aa906f Make 'tags' targets respect --with-silent-rules (Bug#31744)
Conflicts:
test/Makefile.in
test/README
Diffstat (limited to 'test/README')
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/test/README b/test/README index 1bfa9037ea6..83ee2614004 100644 --- a/test/README +++ b/test/README @@ -56,7 +56,10 @@ except the tests tagged as expensive or unstable. If your test file contains the tests "test-foo", "test2-foo" and "test-foo-remote", and you want to run only the former two tests, you -could use a selector regexp: "make <filename> SELECTOR='\"foo$$\"'". +could use a selector regexp (note that the "$" needs to be doubled to +protect against "make" variable expansion): + + make <filename> SELECTOR='"foo$$"' Note that although the test files are always compiled (unless they set no-byte-compile), the source files will be run when expensive or @@ -70,6 +73,12 @@ Some tests might take long time to run. In order to summarize the make SUMMARIZE_TESTS=<nn> ... +The tests are run in batch mode by default; sometimes it's useful to +get precisely the same environment but run in interactive mode for +debugging. To do that, use + + make TEST_INTERACTIVE=yes ... + (Also, see etc/compilation.txt for compilation mode font lock tests.) |