From: Noam Postavsky Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 00:14:05 +0000 (-0500) Subject: ; test/README: Document TEST_LOAD_EL parameter. X-Git-Tag: emacs-26.1-rc1~315 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=08a6195571194f961fb898ebbf307c0aa13785a6;p=emacs.git ; test/README: Document TEST_LOAD_EL parameter. --- diff --git a/test/README b/test/README index 7f4afb32bd3..1cd9db3bb88 100644 --- a/test/README +++ b/test/README @@ -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 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.)