README:

  Revise mysql-test README.


mysql-test/README:
  Revise mysql-test README.

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 This directory contains a test suite for mysql daemon. To run
 the currently existing test cases, simply execute ./mysql-test-run in
 this directory. It will fire up the newly built mysqld and test it.
+
+If you want to run a test with a running MySQL server use the --extern
+option to mysql-test-run. Please note that in this mode the test suite
+expects user to specify test names to run. Otherwise it falls back to the
+normal "non-extern" behaviour. The reason is that some tests
+could not run with external server. Here is the sample command
+to test "alias" and "analyze" tests on external server:
+
+mysql-test-run --extern alias analyze
+
+To match your setup you might also need to provide --socket, --user and
+other relevant options.
+
 Note that you do not have to have to do make install, and you could
 actually have a co-existing MySQL installation - the tests will not
 conflict with it.
@@ -8,13 +21,12 @@ conflict with it.
 All tests must pass. If one or more of them fail on your system, please
 read the following manual section of how to report the problem:
 
-http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/MySQL_test_suite.html
+http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/mysql-test-suite.html
 
 
 You can create your own test cases. To create a test case:
 
- cd t
- vi test_case_name.test
+ xemacs t/test_case_name.test
 
  in the file, put a set of SQL commands that will create some tables,
  load test data, run some queries to manipulate it.