From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:45:35 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: update README on running tests
X-Git-Tag: v2.7a1~1956
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a18736b5d2cb8d6141456c40d7d2e762b04a31b8;p=python

update README on running tests
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diff --git a/README b/README
index ba971eaf63..73550c86b3 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -945,11 +945,14 @@ 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.