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authorGreg Schafer <greg@linuxfromscratch.org>2003-09-24 23:48:45 +0000
committerGreg Schafer <greg@linuxfromscratch.org>2003-09-24 23:48:45 +0000
commit3a788f0c7908aaf9aa115ec6e2cba3217b67fad5 (patch)
tree00ca4c395161efd86a1874f1c71f0f91d80bf898 /chapter05/coreutils-inst.xml
parent978d0bffc413b67ead9db2d2816b916cf3d502ca (diff)
Next batch of fixes for Bug 675 - missing command descriptions.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2880 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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@@ -17,10 +17,18 @@ following command will do so:</para>
<para><screen><userinput>make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes check</userinput></screen></para>
+<para>The meaning of the make option:</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para><userinput>RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes</userinput>: This tells the
+test suite to run several additional tests that are considered relatively
+expensive on some platforms. Hovever, they are generally not a problem on
+Linux.</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+
<para>And install the package:</para>
<para><screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen></para>
-
</sect2>