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authorDavid Bremner <david@tethera.net>2015-03-14 09:02:03 +0100
committerDavid Bremner <david@tethera.net>2015-03-29 00:33:56 +0100
commit1e69afe8af3512c45061cfde99c9f98e1f94e20c (patch)
tree7f8ad1626b5f5792aa3beddac43ec6eeaeda03f6 /test/README
parentbaf93369f6a204bc16740358a56af95cbaa1f9b5 (diff)
test: add support for compiling and running C snippets
This is to limit the copy-pasta involved in running C tests. I decided to keep things simple and not try to provide an actual C skeleton. The setting of LD_LIBRARY_PATH is to force using the built libnotmuch rather than any potential system one.
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@@ -84,6 +84,11 @@ the tests in one of the following ways.
TEST_EMACS=my-special-emacs TEST_EMACSCLIENT=my-emacsclient ./emacs
make test TEST_EMACS=my-special-emacs TEST_EMACSCLIENT=my-emacsclient
+Some tests may require a c compiler. You can choose the name and flags similarly
+to with emacs, e.g.
+
+ make test TEST_CC=gcc TEST_CFLAGS="-g -O2"
+
Quiet Execution
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