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@@ -35,9 +35,14 @@ more test files to be added to the test suite. Test suite ---------- -You need to have xdgmime checked out [1] and compiled. By default, the build -system will expect the source directory to be in the shared-mime-info -directory. `./xdgmime/src/test-mime-data` will be run against +You need to have xdgmime [1] checked out and compiled. In the shared-mime-info +git repository, getting xdgmime is taken care of by using a git submodule; run +`git submodule update --init` after cloning the shared-mime-info repo. If +you wish to keep the submodule automatically up to date on pull, `git config +submodule.recurse true` in the shared-mime-info dir helps with that. + +By default, the build system will expect the xdgmime directory to be in the +shared-mime-info directory. `./xdgmime/src/test-mime-data` is run against `tests/mime-detection/list`. An alternate path to xdgmime can be passed by using the `xdgmime-path` meson option such as `-Dxdgmime-path=/path/to/xdgmime`. |