more verbiage about "make check"

diff --git a/README b/README
index 3a1efd8..a0e3e92 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -82,6 +82,10 @@ general, this should work:
 
 The 'make check' step is optional; omit it to skip all the tests,
 which can take several hours and use around 70-80 megs of disk space.
+Even though it will stop with an explicit message on any failure, it
+does print out a lot of stuff so you might want to capture the output
+to a file if you're having a problem.  Also, don't run 'make check'
+as root because it confuses some of the tests.
 
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