* README: Fix testing instructions.

* README-alpha: Fix release instructions: build in a new tree.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 5bd474e89db729ed536440131b46e017dbae3ae0..4e8a1a9f088f242b47cbd59c793474e446d0a24c 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2007-08-18  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       * README: Fix testing instructions.
+       * README-alpha: Fix release instructions: build in a new tree.
+
 2007-08-16  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
 
        * libtool.m4 (AC_LIBTOOL_PROG_COMPILER_PIC): [ mingw, cygwin ]

diff --git a/README b/README
index 47d92d4a57f99373916b8e2ef6e28da5054dc229..53ccc0aab7d8c73ac86c7869e68eeed14a0deccc 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -65,7 +65,8 @@ rerun the group with FAILures to get verbose output.
 To run a test group in isolation (say, you think you have fixed a bug,
 but don't want to rerun the entire suite), you can do it like this:
 
-  env TESTS='cdemo-static.test cdemo-make.test cdemo-exec.test' make check
+  env TESTS='cdemo-static.test cdemo-make.test cdemo-exec.test' \
+  make -e check
 
 Providing that you have a FAIL from the most recent group from a
 particular demo directory (like the cdemo-static.test group above), you
@@ -78,7 +79,7 @@ bug report mailing list, <bug-libtool@gnu.org>.  You can generate verbose
 test output like this:
 
   env VERBOSE=1 TESTS='cdemo-static.test cdemo-make.test cdemo-exec.test' \
-  make check
+  make -e check
 
 Alternatively, because each test is a shell script, in a non VPATH build,
 you can simply execute the tests, they will be verbose.

diff --git a/README-alpha b/README-alpha
index 6b252060fd2a2424f3e9e22f43afb5a15d6a2c13..eca3fb229ba4bd39991d87b2f82aaa876a448353 100644 (file)
--- a/README-alpha
+++ b/README-alpha
@@ -90,7 +90,8 @@ using (by typing `libtool --version').
 
 * Run ./bootstrap.
 
-* Run ./configure and then make.
+* Run ./configure and then make.  Do not reuse an existing build tree,
+  remove an old config.status file if present.
 
 * Run `make fetch', which will fetch new versions of the files that are
   maintained outside of libtool.