From: Timo Heister <timo.heister@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 12:50:56 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: mention 'make test'
X-Git-Tag: v8.1.0~355
X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dealii.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=32f72b124d759eb2232cdf8b108859245ecc84a0;p=dealii.git

mention 'make test'

git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@31585 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d
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diff --git a/deal.II/README b/deal.II/README
index 3d878e4de0..c88147149a 100644
--- a/deal.II/README
+++ b/deal.II/README
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ For the impatient:
   $ cd build
   $ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/path/where/deal.II/should/be/intalled/to ..
   $ make install    (alternatively $ make -j<N> install)
+  $ make test
 
   A detailed ReadME can be found at ./doc/readme.html and
   ./doc/users/cmake.html or at http://www.dealii.org/.
diff --git a/deal.II/doc/news/changes.h b/deal.II/doc/news/changes.h
index b9500bc0c2..bdda6304c9 100644
--- a/deal.II/doc/news/changes.h
+++ b/deal.II/doc/news/changes.h
@@ -94,6 +94,14 @@ inconvenience this causes.
 
 
 <ol>
+  <li> New: introduced "make test" that runs a minimal set of tests. We
+  encourage every user to run this, especially if they run in to problems.
+  The tests are automatically picked depending on the configuration and
+  will be shipped with every release.
+  <br>
+  (Timo Heister, Matthias Maier, 2013/11/08)
+  </li>
+
   <li> Changed: It is now possible to restore a parallel Triangulation
   (and solutions) with a different number of processors it was saved with
   using Triangulation::save() and Triangulation::load().
diff --git a/deal.II/doc/readme.html b/deal.II/doc/readme.html
index 2709045d84..6197629919 100644
--- a/deal.II/doc/readme.html
+++ b/deal.II/doc/readme.html
@@ -220,12 +220,13 @@
   cd build
   cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/path/to/install/dir ../deal.II
   make install
+  make test
 </pre>
 
 <p>
-  These steps compile, link and install the deal.II library. The
-  whole process should take between a few minutes and an hour, depending
-  on your machine.
+  These steps compile, link, install the deal.II library, and run a few
+  consistency checks. The whole process should take between a few minutes
+  and an hour, depending on your machine.
 </p>
 
     <p>