[Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 08a6195 4/5: ; test/README: Document TEST_LOAD_EL parameter.

[Noam Postavsky]

branch: emacs-26
commit 08a6195571194f961fb898ebbf307c0aa13785a6
Author: Noam Postavsky <address@hidden>
Commit: Noam Postavsky <address@hidden>

    ; test/README: Document TEST_LOAD_EL parameter.
---
 test/README | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/test/README b/test/README
index 7f4afb3..1cd9db3 100644
--- a/test/README
+++ b/test/README
@@ -44,6 +44,12 @@ If your test file contains the tests "test-foo", "test2-foo" 
and
 "test-foo-remote", and you want to run only the former two tests, you
 could use a selector regexp: "make <filename> SELECTOR='\"foo$$\"'".
 
+Note that although the test files are always compiled (unless they set
+no-byte-compile), the source files will be run by default, to give
+nicer backtraces.  To run the compiled version of a test use
+
+    make TEST_LOAD_EL=no ...
+
 
 (Also, see etc/compilation.txt for compilation mode font lock tests.)