1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 73a862b..3215623 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,9 +1,13 @@
 PYTHONPATH:=$(shell pwd)/lib:${PYTHONPATH}
+PYTHON ?= python
 
 all:
 
+# it would be nice to use doctest directly to run the README, but that's 
+# only supported from python2.6 onwards, so we need a script
 check:
-	PYTHONPATH=$(PYTHONPATH) python ./test_all.py $(TESTRULE)
+	PYTHONPATH=$(PYTHONPATH):.:./lib $(PYTHON) run_doctest.py README
+	PYTHONPATH=$(PYTHONPATH) $(PYTHON) ./test_all.py $(TESTRULE)
 
 clean:
 	find . -name '*.pyc' -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f