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authorCraig A. Berry <craigberry@mac.com>2011-03-05 21:57:20 -0600
committerCraig A. Berry <craigberry@mac.com>2011-03-05 21:58:01 -0600
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Document running "make minitest" to test miniperl.
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@@ -760,6 +760,13 @@ If you don't run the full test suite, at least C<make test_porting>.
This will run basic sanity checks. To see which sanity checks, have a
look in F<t/porting>.
+=item *
+
+If you make any changes that affect miniperl or core routines that have
+different code paths for miniperl, be sure to run C<make minitest>.
+This will catch problems that even the full test suite will not catch
+because it runs a subset of tests under miniperl rather than perl.
+
=back
=head2 Committing to maintenance versions