; test/Makefile.in: Add TEST_INTERACTIVE option (Bug#31744).

* test/README: Note the new option.

2 files changed, 33 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/test/Makefile.in b/test/Makefile.in
index e6b3f77523c..451513a7474 100644
--- a/test/Makefile.in
+++ b/test/Makefile.in
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ EMACS_EXTRAOPT=
 # Command line flags for Emacs.
 # Apparently MSYS bash would convert "-L :" to "-L ;" anyway,
 # but we might as well be explicit.
-EMACSOPT = -batch --no-site-file --no-site-lisp -L "$(SEPCHAR)$(srcdir)" $(EMACS_EXTRAOPT)
+EMACSOPT = --no-init-file --no-site-file --no-site-lisp -L "$(SEPCHAR)$(srcdir)" $(EMACS_EXTRAOPT)
 
 # Prevent any settings in the user environment causing problems.
 unexport EMACSDATA EMACSDOC EMACSPATH GREP_OPTIONS
@@ -94,6 +94,15 @@ GDB =
 # supported everywhere.
 TEST_LOCALE = C
 
+# Set this to 'yes' to run the tests in an interactive instance.
+TEST_INTERACTIVE ?= no
+
+ifeq ($(TEST_INTERACTIVE),yes)
+TEST_RUN_ERT = --eval "(ert ${SELECTOR_ACTUAL})"
+else
+TEST_RUN_ERT = --batch --eval "(ert-run-tests-batch-and-exit ${SELECTOR_ACTUAL})" ${WRITE_LOG}
+endif
+
 # Whether to run tests from .el files in preference to .elc, we do
 # this by default since it gives nicer stacktraces.
 TEST_LOAD_EL ?= yes
@@ -120,6 +129,11 @@ emacs = EMACSLOADPATH= LC_ALL=$(TEST_LOCALE) \
  EMACS_TEST_DIRECTORY=$(abspath $(srcdir)) \
  $(GDB) "$(EMACS)" $(MODULES_EMACSOPT) $(EMACSOPT)
 
+# Set HOME to a nonexistent directory to prevent tests from accessing
+# it accidentally (e.g., popping up a gnupg dialog if ~/.authinfo.gpg
+# exists, or writing to ~/.bzr.log when running bzr commands).
+TEST_HOME = /nonexistent
+
 test_module_dir := $(srcdir)/data/emacs-module
 
 .PHONY: all check
@@ -128,7 +142,7 @@ all: check
 
 SELECTOR_DEFAULT = (quote (not (or (tag :expensive-test) (tag :unstable))))
 SELECTOR_EXPENSIVE = (quote (not (tag :unstable)))
-SELECTOR_ALL = nil
+SELECTOR_ALL = t
 ifdef SELECTOR
 SELECTOR_ACTUAL=$(SELECTOR)
 else ifndef MAKECMDGOALS
@@ -145,7 +159,7 @@ endif
 
 ## Byte-compile all test files to test for errors.
 %.elc: %.el
-        $(AM_V_ELC)$(emacs) -f batch-byte-compile $<
+        $(AM_V_ELC)$(emacs) --batch -f batch-byte-compile $<
 
 ## Save logs, and show logs for failed tests.
 WRITE_LOG = > $@ 2>&1 || { STAT=$$?; cat $@; exit $$STAT; }
@@ -158,9 +172,9 @@ endif
 
 %.log: %.elc
         $(AM_V_at)${MKDIR_P} $(dir $@)
-        $(AM_V_GEN)HOME=/nonexistent $(emacs) \
+        $(AM_V_GEN)HOME=$(TEST_HOME) $(emacs) \
           -l ert ${ert_opts} -l $(testloadfile) \
-          --eval "(ert-run-tests-batch-and-exit ${SELECTOR_ACTUAL})" ${WRITE_LOG}
+          $(TEST_RUN_ERT)
 
 ifeq (@HAVE_MODULES@, yes)
 maybe_exclude_module_tests :=
@@ -260,8 +274,15 @@ check-maybe: check-no-automated-subdir
 ## We can't put LOGFILES as prerequisites, because that would stop the
 ## summarizing step from running when there is an error.
 check-doit:
+ifeq ($(TEST_INTERACTIVE), yes)
+        HOME=$(TEST_HOME) $(emacs) \
+          -l ert ${ert_opts} \
+          $(patsubst %,-l %,$(if $(findstring $(TEST_LOAD_EL),yes),$ELFILES,$(ELFILES:.el=)))  \
+          $(TEST_RUN_ERT)
+else
         -@${MAKE} -k  ${LOGFILES}
-        @$(emacs) -l ert -f ert-summarize-tests-batch-and-exit ${LOGFILES}
+        @$(emacs) --batch -l ert -f ert-summarize-tests-batch-and-exit ${LOGFILES}
+endif
 
 .PHONY: mostlyclean clean bootstrap-clean distclean maintainer-clean
 
diff --git a/test/README b/test/README
index 1cd9db3bb88..c1dde2e0d01 100644
--- a/test/README
+++ b/test/README
@@ -50,6 +50,12 @@ nicer backtraces.  To run the compiled version of a test use
 
     make TEST_LOAD_EL=no ...
 
+The tests are run in batch mode by default; sometimes it's useful to
+get precisely the same environment but run in interactive mode for
+debugging.  To do that, use
+
+    make TEST_INTERACTIVE=yes ...
+
 
 (Also, see etc/compilation.txt for compilation mode font lock tests.)