From b6ca2d679c17bab6ddc644e1533e0aefce8c672c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Georg Brandl Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 23:38:50 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] 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 r69998 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-26 19:04:40 +0000 (Do, 26 Feb 2009) | 1 line the startship is rather outdated now ........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 ........ --- README | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index bc40ec82cf0..40e5b425215 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -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.