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@@ -41,6 +41,10 @@
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Automake</title>
+ <para>Fix an intermittent test failure:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&automake-test-patch;</userinput></screen>
+
<para>Prepare Automake for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr --docdir=/usr/share/doc/automake-&automake-version;</userinput></screen>
@@ -49,9 +53,7 @@
<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
- <note><para>The tests take a very long time: over 30 SBUs. Running
- the tests is not recommended. At least one test (of over 3000) is
- known to intermittently fail.</para></note>
+ <note><para>The tests take a very long time: over 30 SBUs.</para></note>
<para>To test the results, issue:</para>