From 641a630663df57668236417c676b6213ec972116 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: pmichaud Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 07:22:41 -0500 Subject: Update README, exclude README.star from distribution tarballs. --- README | 17 +++++------------ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index 2194532..fdaf6ce 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -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 ------------------- -- cgit v1.1