Emacs-lisp tests cannot be run

Exercism Support CLI
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Hi! When I try to run tests on an emacs-lisp exercise, I get:

❯ exercism test
Running tests via `emacs -batch -l ert -l *-test.el -f ert-run-tests-batch-and-exit`

Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/00debian.el (source)...
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50autoconf.el (source)...
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50dictionaries-common.el (source)...
Loading debian-ispell (native compiled elisp)...
Loading /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-default.el (source)...
Loading /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-dicts.el (source)...
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50figlet.el (source)...
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50latexmk.el (source)...

Error: file-missing ("Cannot open load file" "No such file or directory" "*-test.el")
  mapbacktrace(#f(compiled-function (evald func args flags) #<bytecode -0x1f9c818ae251796c>))
  debug-early-backtrace()
  debug-early(error (file-missing "Cannot open load file" "No such file or directory" "*-test.el"))
  command-line-1(("-l" "ert" "-l" "*-test.el" "-f" "ert-run-tests-batch-and-exit"))
  command-line()
  normal-top-level()
Cannot open load file: No such file or directory, *-test.el

since the command highlighted in the first line indeed works if launched via shell, I took a deeper look:

❯ strace -fe trace=file exercism test 2>&1 | grep test.el
Running tests via `emacs -batch -l ert -l *-test.el -f ert-run-tests-batch-and-exit`
[pid 3879109] execve("/usr/bin/emacs", ["emacs", "-batch", "-l", "ert", "-l", "*-test.el", "-f", "ert-run-tests-batch-and-exit"], 0xc0001a61e0 /* 58 vars */) = 0
[pid 3879109] readlinkat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/oggei/dev/exercism/emacs-lisp/hello-world/*-test.el", 0x7ffd5f607610, 1024) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[...]

and it looks like there is nothing in place to expand that glob (ie. a sh -c).
Even if it looks like a little fix, I’m not able to write golang so I’ll just drop this here :)

Thank you, regards

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Thanks for reporting. I’ve created a PR for it, and I’ll try to ping the team to create a new release.

3

Hey hello! Sorry for the untimely reply, I thought the system notifies replies by email and I didn’t receive it though, I will investigate. Anyway the patch looks promising, thanks for writing it!

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We’ve released version 3.3.0 of the CLI yesterday, so if you do exercism upgrade it should work once that’s finished.

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