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authorNoam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>2018-01-03 19:14:05 -0500
committerNoam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>2018-01-26 19:53:09 -0500
commit08a6195571194f961fb898ebbf307c0aa13785a6 (patch)
treeaba478a2937c2e484f13ee867eee33d9c02a9915
parent7bbea90b1a82c09a6bb218ac9b50d39027757b31 (diff)
downloademacs-08a6195571194f961fb898ebbf307c0aa13785a6.tar.gz
; test/README: Document TEST_LOAD_EL parameter.
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@@ -44,6 +44,12 @@ 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$$\"'".
+Note that although the test files are always compiled (unless they set
+no-byte-compile), the source files will be run by default, to give
+nicer backtraces. To run the compiled version of a test use
+
+ make TEST_LOAD_EL=no ...
+
(Also, see etc/compilation.txt for compilation mode font lock tests.)