Re: bug#48598: 28.0.50; buffer-naming collisions involving bouncers in ERC

[Michael Albinus]

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

Hi,

>> Even without the aforementioned packaging snafu, the erc-d/ situation is
>> definitely confusing. That subdir is supposed to house the fake IRC
>> server that all the "erc-scenarios"-based tests depend on. I initially
>> tried going with erc-d-tests.el instead of erc-d-self.el for the
>> server's own tests but hit a Make error because a corresponding library
>> didn't exist under lisp/erc/. Perhaps I should have tinkered further.
>
> Indeed, test/Makefile fires an error then. I've pushed a fix to master,
> it shall work now with the file name erc-d-tests.el.

I've poked around this problem. Looks like there is a better solution. If
your test directory is not called test/lisp/erc/, but test/lisp/erc-tests/,
you can locate there test packages with an arbitrary name, like
erc-tests.el or erc-d-tests.el, which don't require a corresponding
library under lisp/erc/. This is described in test/README, and it will
work also with older Emacsen.

I revert the aforementioned patch in test/Makefile therefore.

Best regards, Michael.