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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 |