[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-532136 ] README seems wrong.

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Bugs item #532136, was opened at 2002-03-19 21:25
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Category: Documentation
Group: Python 2.2.1 candidate
Status: Open
Resolution: None
>Priority: 3
Submitted By: Ralph Corderoy (ralph)
Assigned to: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Summary: README seems wrong.

Initial Comment:
Hi,

README says:

    IMPORTANT: If the tests fail and you decide to mail
a bug report,
    *don't* include the output of "make test".  It is
useless.  Run the
    failing test manually, as follows:

            python ../Lib/test/test_whatever.py

    (substituting the top of the source tree for .. if
you built in a
    different directory).  This runs the test in
verbose mode.

I suggest it would be better to write `./python'
otherwise the old,
installed, version is found by users that don't have
the current
directory in their path.

Also, at this point we're in the top level source
directory, so the 
newly built python is ./python.  So Lib isn't ../Lib
but ./Lib, i.e. 
it's in the current directory.  Consequently, the text
about 
substituting the top of the source tree for .. is right
if you built it 
in a different directory.  However, even if you built
it in the current 
directory you still need to substitute the .. AFAICS.

Cheers,


Ralph.


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