[PATCH] test: add test for syntax of emacs test library
Tomi Ollila
tomi.ollila at iki.fi
Sun Jan 12 01:56:41 PST 2014
On Sun, Jan 12 2014, David Bremner <david at tethera.net> wrote:
> If there is a syntax error in the emacs test library, it causes other
> tests to hang or crash without a useful error message.
>
> This test could be eliminated if the error reporting for emacs tests
> was somehow improved.
> ---
This helps developers to deal with some mysteries in the test suite so LGTM.
Tomi
> test/emacs | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/test/emacs b/test/emacs
> index 863219d..7dc9a8e 100755
> --- a/test/emacs
> +++ b/test/emacs
> @@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ EXPECTED=$TEST_DIRECTORY/emacs.expected-output
>
> add_email_corpus
>
> +# syntax errors in test-lib.el cause mysterious failures
> +test_expect_success 'Syntax of emacs test library' \
> + "${TEST_EMACS} -Q --batch --load $TEST_DIRECTORY/test-lib.el"
> +
> test_begin_subtest "Basic notmuch-hello view in emacs"
> test_emacs '(notmuch-hello)
> (test-output)'
> --
> 1.8.5.2
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