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diff tests/automated/test-harness.el @ 4366:7b628daa39d4
Move debugging code to usage example.
* automated/test-harness.el (test-harness-test-compiled): Improve docstring.
* automated/weak-tests.el (test-harness-test-compiled): Remove debugging code.
| author | Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org> |
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| date | Sat, 29 Dec 2007 20:22:04 -0800 |
| parents | 94509abd0ef0 |
| children | bceb3e285ae7 |
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--- a/tests/automated/test-harness.el Thu Dec 27 13:22:26 2007 +0100 +++ b/tests/automated/test-harness.el Sat Dec 29 20:22:04 2007 -0800 @@ -71,7 +71,17 @@ (defvar unexpected-test-file-failures) (defvar test-harness-test-compiled nil - "Non-nil means the test code was compiled before execution.") + "Non-nil means the test code was compiled before execution. + +You probably should not make tests depend on compilation. +However, it can be useful to conditionally change messages based on whether +the code was compiled or not. For example, the case that motivated the +implementation of this variable: + +\(when test-harness-test-compiled + ;; this ha-a-ack depends on the failing compiled test coming last + \(setq test-harness-failure-tag + \"KNOWN BUG - fix reverted; after 2003-10-31 notify stephen\n\"))") (defvar test-harness-verbose (and (not noninteractive) (> (device-baud-rate) search-slow-speed))