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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2010-05-18 23:38:50 +0000
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2010-05-18 23:38:50 +0000
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Merged revisions 69924,69998-69999 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r69924 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-24 02:45:35 +0000 (Di, 24 Feb 2009) | 1 line update README on running tests ........ r69998 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-26 19:04:40 +0000 (Do, 26 Feb 2009) | 1 line the startship is rather outdated now ........ r69999 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-26 19:05:59 +0000 (Do, 26 Feb 2009) | 1 line comma ........
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@@ -97,9 +97,6 @@ Web sites
New Python releases and related technologies are published at
http://www.python.org/. Come visit us!
-There's also a Python community web site at
-http://starship.python.net/.
-
Newsgroups and Mailing Lists
----------------------------
@@ -166,7 +163,7 @@ variables. When it's done, you are ready to run make.
To build Python, you normally type "make" in the toplevel directory.
If you have changed the configuration, the Makefile may have to be
-rebuilt. In this case you may have to run make again to correctly
+rebuilt. In this case, you may have to run make again to correctly
build your desired target. The interpreter executable is built in the
top level directory.
@@ -880,11 +877,14 @@ that are not yet using glibc 6), test_strftime fails due to a
non-standard implementation of strftime() in the C library. Please
ignore this, or upgrade to glibc version 6.
+By default, tests are prevented from overusing resources like disk space and
+memory. To enable these tests, run "make testall".
+
IMPORTANT: If the tests fail and you decide to mail a bug report,
*don't* include the output of "make test". It is useless. Run the
failing test manually, as follows:
- ./python ./Lib/test/test_whatever.py
+ ./python Lib/test/regrtest.py -v test_whatever
(substituting the top of the source tree for '.' if you built in a
different directory). This runs the test in verbose mode.