From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 00:10:21 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: test: add test for syntax of emacs test library
X-Git-Tag: 0.18_rc0~194
X-Git-Url: https://git.notmuchmail.org/git?p=notmuch;a=commitdiff_plain;h=ae47d617a7b4a77dcad1dc89ae5e35abe87f0081;hp=89fe006ca421142bfba0969c140b633ad520832c

test: add test for syntax of emacs test library

If there is a syntax error in the emacs test library, it causes other
tests to hang or crash without a useful error message.

This test could be eliminated if the error reporting for emacs tests
was somehow improved.
---

diff --git a/test/T310-emacs.sh b/test/T310-emacs.sh
index 863219d9..7dc9a8e0 100755
--- a/test/T310-emacs.sh
+++ b/test/T310-emacs.sh
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ EXPECTED=$TEST_DIRECTORY/emacs.expected-output
 
 add_email_corpus
 
+# syntax errors in test-lib.el cause mysterious failures
+test_expect_success 'Syntax of emacs test library' \
+    "${TEST_EMACS} -Q --batch --load $TEST_DIRECTORY/test-lib.el"
+
 test_begin_subtest "Basic notmuch-hello view in emacs"
 test_emacs '(notmuch-hello)
 	    (test-output)'