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authorpmichaud <pmichaud@pobox.com>2012-08-29 07:22:41 -0500
committerpmichaud <pmichaud@pobox.com>2012-08-29 07:22:41 -0500
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Update README, exclude README.star from distribution tarballs.
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@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ This distribution contains software collected from other sources; see the
individual source subdirectories (in parrot/, rakudo/, and modules/) for
copyright and licensing information of those components.
-
Build Prerequisites
-------------------
To build Rakudo Star you need at least a C compiler, a 'make' utility,
@@ -80,18 +79,12 @@ bundled with Rakudo. This is a simple suite of tests, designed
to make sure that the Rakudo compiler is basically working and that
it's capable of running a simple test harness.
-Running "make spectest" in the rakudo/ subdirectory will import
-the official PerlĀ 6 test suite from the roast repository
-(https://github.com/perl6/roast/) and run all of these tests
-that are currently known to pass.
-
-If you want to automatically submit the results of your spectest run
-to a central server, use 'make spectest_smolder' instead. You need
-the PerlĀ 5 module 'TAP::Harness::Archive' and an active internet
-connection for that.
-
-For more details about running tests, see rakudo/README .
+Running "make rakudo-spectest" will run the Perl 6 specification
+test suite ("roast") that was bundled with the Rakudo compiler release.
+Running "make modules-test" will run the test suites of any installed
+modules. The modules currently have to be installed (via 'make install'
+or 'make modules-install') before the tests can be run.
Release information
-------------------