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@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-This is the perl test library.  To run all the tests, just type 'TEST'.
+This is the perl test library.  To run most of the tests, just type './TEST'
+(which will not run the tests residing in lib/ or ext/.  In order to run
+all of the tests type 'make test' from the build direcotory above t/).
 
 To add new tests, just look at the current tests and do likewise.
 
@@ -8,9 +10,19 @@ If you put out extra lines with a '#' character on the front, you don't
 have to worry about removing the extra print statements later since TEST
 ignores lines beginning with '#'.
 
-If you know that "basic" features work and expect that some test are going
-to fail, it is adviced to run tests via Test::Harness thusly:
+If you know that Perl is basically working but expect that some tests
+will fail, you may want to use Test::Harness thusly:
+        cd t
 	./perl -I../lib harness
-This would pinpoint failed tests with better granularity.
+This method pinpoints failed tests automatically.
 
-If you come up with new tests, send them to larry@wall.org.
+If you come up with new tests, please send them to perlbug@perl.org.
+
+Tests in the t/base/ directory ought to be runnable with plain miniperl.
+That is, they should not require Config.pm nor should they require any
+extensions to have been built.  TEST will abort if any tests in the
+t/base/ directory fail.
+
+Tests in the t/comp/, t/cmd/, t/run/, t/io/, and t/op/ directories should
+also be runnable by miniperl and not require Config.pm, but failures
+to comply will not cause TEST to abort like for t/base/.