Re: Tests, Emacs-25 and Conditional Features

[phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
>> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 11:15:59 -0400
>> 
>> > Yeah, thought about that. But then the test is skipped if
>> > gnutls-available-p returns nil. What happens if I believe that I have
>> > configured and build Emacs to include gnutls, but, for some reason it
>> > isn't. The test will be skipped when it should succeed.
>> 
>> This probably calls for a different kind of test.
>> E.g. one that takes the system-configuration-options and then confirms
>> that the build has the corresponding features.
>
> That's one possibility, but it isn't the only one.  Some of the
> features in system-configuration-options are detected automatically,
> so the user might not always be aware that a feature she assumed she
> has failed to auto-detect and is disabled.
>
> Maybe a test that produced a report for which features are actually
> available and working would be a possible solution.

Failing a test, even a GUI which says "I have these features" would be
nice. I can add that.

Phil