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@@ -17,9 +17,12 @@ to know that our most important tools are working properly.</para>
<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
-<para>This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of
-checks to ensure it built correctly. Should you choose to run it, the
-following command will do so:</para>
+<para>This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of
+checks to ensure it built correctly. However, the Tcl test suite here in
+Chapter 5 is known to experience failures under certain host conditions that
+are not fully understood. Therefore, test suite failures here are not
+surprising, but are not considered critical. Should you choose to run the test
+suite, the following command will do so:</para>
<screen><userinput>TZ=UTC make test</userinput></screen>