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authorGravatar David Bremner <david@tethera.net>2014-03-01 16:12:44 -0400
committerGravatar David Bremner <david@tethera.net>2014-03-11 19:51:22 -0300
commit8413582b6edc859285d68c9f7ad83236788567c0 (patch)
treebdaf24bb76118273af3817cd132261cea24fa51d /test/README
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test: add machinery to download and verify databases
Note that it is intentional that the checksum file is not downloaded. The intent is to check those into git.
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@@ -64,6 +64,14 @@ The following command-line options are available when running tests:
Pointing this argument at a tmpfs filesystem can improve the
speed of the test suite for some users.
+Certain tests require precomputed databases to complete. You can fetch these
+databases with
+
+ make download-test-databases
+
+If you do not download the test databases, the relevant tests will be
+skipped.
+
When invoking the test suite via "make test" any of the above options
can be specified as follows: