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| author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2011-09-02 11:33:42 +0100 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2011-09-02 11:41:23 +0100 |
| commit | 832c85e3f79387752a563a31c3e9764c488bd6f1 (patch) | |
| tree | 42448640e685e457b0a8efd53083c6ab593f8af0 /README-release | |
| parent | 3d2e55d5083ba894f7b273db427f72dc40c58d32 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-832c85e3f79387752a563a31c3e9764c488bd6f1.tar.xz | |
doc: describe test control variables
* HACKING (Add tests): Mention the variables and default values.
* README-release (Pre-release testing): Mention that setting
the SHELL variable may be required.
Suggested by Bruno Haible.
Diffstat (limited to 'README-release')
| -rw-r--r-- | README-release | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/README-release b/README-release index 729ab898b..af2610a8c 100644 --- a/README-release +++ b/README-release @@ -34,6 +34,10 @@ FIXME: enable excluded programs like arch? to get their manual pages? && make distcheck \ && make -j$n check RUN_VERY_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes + If testing on systems with a non standard default shell, spurious failures + may occur. Often there are other shells available, and you can select + those by using for example, SHELL=bash in the commands above. + Note that the use of -j$n tells make to use approximately half of the available processing units. If you use -jN, for larger N, some of the expensive tests are likely to interfere with concurrent performance-measuring |