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authorLars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>2013-07-31 18:40:03 +0100
committerLars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>2013-07-31 18:40:03 +0100
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Add SRCDIR to the README
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@@ -136,6 +136,10 @@ The following keywords are defined.
The test runner creates a temporary directory, whose name is
given to the shell code in the `DATADIR` environment variable.
+ The test runner sets the `SRCDIR` environment variable to the
+ path to the directory it was invoked from (by convention, the
+ root of the source tree of the project).
+
The shell commands get invoked with `/bin/sh -eu`, and need to
be written accordingly. Be careful about commands that return a
non-zero exit code. There will eventually be a library of shell