From: Ethan Glasser-Camp <ethan@betacantrips.com> dtach (and before that, screen) are used to run emacs with more verisimilitude, but this is only mentioned in the NEWS. Mention this in the test/README file, to make it easier to find out why a bunch of tests are failing/skipped. Signed-off-by: Ethan Glasser-Camp <ethan@betacantrips.com> --- Just cutting my teeth on the codebase, and it took me a little while to figure this out, so I thought I'd document it. test/README | 5 +++++ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/test/README b/test/README index bde6db0..29afb3b 100644 --- a/test/README +++ b/test/README @@ -6,6 +6,11 @@ When fixing bugs or enhancing notmuch, you are strongly encouraged to add tests in this directory to cover what you are trying to fix or enhance. +Prerequisites +------------- +emacs is run within dtach, so you need to have that installed to run +emacs tests (or crypto tests, which rely on emacs to run). + Running Tests ------------- The easiest way to run tests is to say "make test", (or simply run the -- 1.7.5.4