test: allow user to choose which emacs to run tests with.

[notmuch] / test / README

diff --git a/test/README b/test/README
index 7b2e96d466a7a1403fa78f03940ffacf15abdd14..bde6db0c04a4979ea29ac1451e5d0e6b80b8fb50 100644 (file)
--- a/test/README
+++ b/test/README
@@ -56,6 +56,13 @@ can be specified as follows:
 
        make test OPTIONS="--verbose"
 
+You can choose an emacs binary to run the tests in one of the
+following ways.
+
+       TEST_EMACS=my-special-emacs make test
+       TEST_EMACS=my-special-emacs ./emacs
+       make test TEST_EMACS=my-special-emacs
+
 Skipping Tests
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 If, for any reason, you need to skip one or more tests, you can do so