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authorPhaedrus Leeds <mwleeds@protonmail.com>2022-07-24 17:37:36 -0500
committerSimon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>2022-07-25 14:23:41 +0100
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sudo make install
```
+## How to run a specified set of tests
+
+Sometimes you don't want to run the whole test suite but just one you're
+working on. This can be accomplished with a command like:
+```
+make check TESTS='tests/test-alias@system.wrap tests/test-alias@user.wrap'
+```
+
## More info
Dependencies you will need include: autoconf, automake, libtool, bison,
gettext, gtk-doc, gobject-introspection, libcap, libarchive, libxml2, libsoup,