Commit 844f11f2 authored by Martin Pool's avatar Martin Pool

Clarify behaviour of installcheck.

parent 1cf1e7b3
......@@ -10,9 +10,11 @@ you do not need to do "make install" first. Indeed, you probably
should not install rsync before running the tests.
If you instead type "make installcheck" then the suite will test the
rsync binary found on the path. You can use this to test a
distribution build, or perhaps by setting $PATH to run a new test
suite against an old version of rsync.
rsync binary from its installed location (e.g. /usr/local/bin/rsync).
You can use this to test a distribution build, or perhaps to run a new
test suite against an old version of rsync. Note that in accordance
with the GNU Standards, installcheck does not look for rsync on the
path.
If the tests pass, you should see a report to that effect. Some tests
require being root or some other precondition, and so will normally be
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