diff --git a/user-doc/Installation.md b/user-doc/Installation.md index 8562c0db1a539a7e22ca1aa62ab038bc492cb270..dd7aaa0215de402f0c05fb98d2fa6514bdbf469d 100644 --- a/user-doc/Installation.md +++ b/user-doc/Installation.md @@ -341,18 +341,27 @@ or compile the manual. This is not a problem. You can also check if PLUMED is correctly compiled by performing our regression tests. Be warned that some of them fail because of the different numerical accuracy on different machines. +As of version 2.4, in order to test the `plumed` executable that you just compiled +(prior to installing it) you can use the following command +\verbatim +> make check +\endverbatim +On the other hand, in order to test the `plumed` executable that you just installed (see \ref InstallingPlumed) +you should type +\verbatim +> make installcheck +\endverbatim +In addition, similarly to previous versions of PLUMED, you can test the `plumed` executable +that is in your current path with \verbatim > cd regtest > make \endverbatim -Notice that regtests are performed using the "plumed" executable that is currenty in the path. You can check the exact version they will use by using the command \verbatim > which plumed \endverbatim -This means that if you do not source "sourceme.sh", the tests will fails. This does not mean -that plumed is not working it just means that you haven't told them shell where to find plumed! -As a related note, you can easily run the test suite using a different version of PLUMED +Thus, you can easily run the test suite using a different version of PLUMED (maybe an earlier version that you already installed), just making sure that it can be found in the path. Clearly, if you test a given version of PLUMED with a test suite from a different version you can expect two