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<p>
- Not all tests will succeed on your machine, because you might not have
- configured with all the required packages (for example PETSc or Trilinos)
- or, because your machine has slightly different floating point outputs.
- To improve the number of tests that work correctly, install the tool
- numdiff and export the environment variable
- <code>export DEALII_DIFF="numdiff -a 1e-6 -q"</code>
+ Not all tests succeed on every machine even if all computations are
+ correct, because you might not have configured with all the required
+ packages (for example PETSc or Trilinos), or because your machine
+ generates slightly different floating point outputs. To increase the
+ number of tests that work correctly, install the
+ <a href="http://www.nongnu.org/numdiff/">numdiff</a> toold that compares
+ stored and newly created output files based on floating point
+ tolerances. To use it, simply export the environment variable
+ <code>export DEAL_II_DIFF="numdiff -a 1e-6 -q"</code>
before running the testsuite.
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