From 9d260d88a116c51201d29ff6655561f07fc351a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Josh Coalson Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 23:47:15 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] more verbiage about "make check" --- README | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index 3a1efd8..a0e3e92 100644 --- 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. NOTE: Despite our best efforts it's entirely possible to have problems when using older versions of autoconf, automake, or -- 2.7.4