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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2010-12-14 22:06:10 +0000
committerAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2010-12-14 22:06:10 +0000
commite7fed6727912d94f13ccd6cabb38735eb04bc5fc (patch)
treef4f113ac32da133224aa07827f64ae10b3835a40
parentffad35ef2738a78da77ff8d280f700487c380260 (diff)
downloadcpython-git-e7fed6727912d94f13ccd6cabb38735eb04bc5fc.tar.gz
Freshen README contents
-rw-r--r--README7
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/README b/README
index af52c9f0e5..cc3eec8259 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -97,10 +97,7 @@ the test set twice (once with no compiled files, once with the compiled files
left by the previous test run). The test set produces some output. You can
generally ignore the messages about skipped tests due to optional features which
can't be imported. If a message is printed about a failed test or a traceback
-or core dump is produced, something is wrong. On some Linux systems (those 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.
+or core dump is produced, something is wrong.
By default, tests are prevented from overusing resources like disk space and
memory. To enable these tests, run "make testall".
@@ -109,7 +106,7 @@ 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/regrtest.py -v test_whatever
+ ./python -m test -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.