Re: url-auth-tests hang if authinfo is encrypted

[Colin Baxter]

On Fri, Apr 07 2017, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Colin Baxter <address@hidden>
>> Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2017 08:22:31 +0100
>> Cc: , address@hidden
>> 
>> > How are people running the tests?
>> >
>> > The tests are currently not testing the contents of any authinfo files
>> > so setting auth-sources to nil would work. For example:
>> > emacs -Q -batch --eval='(setq auth-sources nil)' -l ert -l
>> > test/lisp/url/url-auth-tests.el -f ert-run-tests-batch-and-exit
>> 
>> This is wonderfully elegant, but a simple-minded user - like me - could
>> perhaps blindly use 'make check' and be puzzled by the result.
>
> I frequently run individual tests like this:
>
>   cd test && make SOMETEST.log
>
> For example, "make lisp/files-tests.log" will run just the tests in
> files-tests.el.  (Sometimes, I need to remove an existing .log file,
> if Make says "SOMETEST.log is up-to-date".)

I'll try this in future, thank you.

Colin.