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Add 'make check' description
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Signed-off-by: Mario Domenech Goulart <mario.goulart@gmail.com>
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Peter Bex authored and mario-goulart committed Sep 12, 2012
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It designates the directory where the files are installed
into.

2.4. Optional features
2.4. Verifying your installation is correct

You can check whether Chicken is functioning correctly by
running

make <vars> check

where <vars> are all the variables you used while building
Chicken.

This will run the test scripts, which show a lot of output.
The only thing that matters is the exit status at the end.
If it exits with status 0, everything is fine, if it exits
with a nonzero status, the failing test's output should be
the final lines before Make's "error; exit" output. If the
check fails on unmodified sources, please file a bugreport.

Currently "make check" only works if you have installed
Chicken.

2.5. Optional features

You can further enable various optional features by adding
one or more of the following variables to the "make"
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Be warned that this is a highly experimental option and
profiling doesn't work for every component of Chicken.

2.5. Uninstalling Chicken
2.6. Uninstalling Chicken

To remove CHICKEN from your file-system, enter (probably as
root):
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(If you gave DESTDIR during installation, you have to pass
the same setting to "make" when uninstalling)

2.6. What gets installed
2.7. What gets installed

These files will be installed under the prefix given during
build and installation:
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