Testsuite: tweak instructions for running the suite

[exim.git] / test / README

diff --git a/test/README b/test/README
index 8453d317b27213405cd0011e5d8771a05ccdc31b..f9ee5d0a9d6f57a93ae68803526abb2cd2213ff1 100644 (file)
--- a/test/README
+++ b/test/README
@@ -146,10 +146,10 @@ the extra functionality, except for a few special cases such as the databases
 RUNNING THE TEST SUITE
 ----------------------
 
-(1) Download the tarball exim-testsuite-x.xx.tar.bz2 and unpack it, preferably
-    in a directory alongside an Exim source directory (see below).
+(1) Clone the git tree for Exim.  This include both the Exim source and the
+    testsuite.
 
-(2) cd into the exim-testsuite-x.xx directory.
+(2) cd into the test/ subdirectory (where this README lives).
 
 (3) Run "./configure" and then "make". This builds a few auxiliary programs that
     are written in C.
@@ -298,6 +298,9 @@ There are some options for the ./runtest script itself:
             maintainer after making a change to the code that affects a lot of
             tests (for example, the wording of a message).
 
+  -SLOW     For very slow hosts that appear to have Heisenbugs, delay before
+            comparing output files from a testcase
+
 The options for ./runtest must be given first (but after the name of the
 binary, if present). Any further options, that is, items on the command line
 that start with a hyphen, are passed to the Exim binary when it is run as part
@@ -1027,11 +1030,16 @@ Lines in client scripts are of two kinds:
     line is input to be sent to the server.  Backslash escaping is done as
     described below, but no trailing "\r\n" is sent.
 
-(4) Otherwise, the line is an input line line that is sent to the server. Any
+(4) If a line begin with three '<' characters and a space, the rest of the
+    line is a filename; the content of the file is inserted intto the script
+    at this point.
+
+(5) Otherwise, the line is an input line line that is sent to the server. Any
     occurrences of \r and \n in the line are turned into carriage return and
     linefeed, respectively. This is used for testing PIPELINING.
     Any sequences of \x followed by two hex digits are converted to the equvalent
     byte value.  Any other character following a \ is sent verbatim.
+    The line is sent with a trailing "\r\n".
 
 Here is a simple example: