Re: url-auth-tests hang if authinfo is encrypted

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Colin Baxter <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2017 08:22:31 +0100
> Cc: , address@hidden
> 
> > How are people running the tests?
> >
> > The tests are currently not testing the contents of any authinfo files
> > so setting auth-sources to nil would work. For example:
> > emacs -Q -batch --eval='(setq auth-sources nil)' -l ert -l
> > test/lisp/url/url-auth-tests.el -f ert-run-tests-batch-and-exit
> 
> This is wonderfully elegant, but a simple-minded user - like me - could
> perhaps blindly use 'make check' and be puzzled by the result.

I frequently run individual tests like this:

  cd test && make SOMETEST.log

For example, "make lisp/files-tests.log" will run just the tests in
files-tests.el.  (Sometimes, I need to remove an existing .log file,
if Make says "SOMETEST.log is up-to-date".)