test: check for notmuch binary in test-lib.sh

[notmuch] / test / test-lib.sh

diff --git a/test/test-lib.sh b/test/test-lib.sh
index 84051bc90ac09ce74dd788918a05181d693f8bef..9f0d7e02a3d940454edf1e5b71888e6a4e6815ed 100644 (file)
--- a/test/test-lib.sh
+++ b/test/test-lib.sh
@@ -26,6 +26,13 @@ fi
 # Make sure echo builtin does not expand backslash-escape sequences by default.
 shopt -u xpg_echo
 
+# It appears that people try to run tests without building...
+if ! test -x ../notmuch
+then
+       echo >&2 'You do not seem to have built notmuch yet.'
+       exit 1
+fi
+
 this_test=${0##*/}
 this_test=${this_test%.sh}
 this_test_bare=${this_test#T[0-9][0-9][0-9]-}