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+5 May 2003
+
+Building and not installing it
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+To run Valgrind without having to install it, run coregrind/valgrind (prefix
+with "sh" because it's not executable) with the --in-place=<dir> option, where
+<dir> is the root of the source tree (and must be an absolute path).  Eg:
+
+  sh ~/grind/head4/coregrind/valgrind --in-place=/homes/njn25/grind/head4
+
+This allows you to compile and run with "make" instead of "make install",
+saving you time.
+
+I recommend compiling with "make --quiet" to further reduce the amount of
+output spewed out during compilation, letting you actually see any errors,
+warnings, etc.
+
+
+Running the regression tests
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+To build and run all the regression tests, run "make [--quiet] regtest".
+
+To run a subset of the regression tests, execute:
+
+  perl tests/vg_regtest <name>
+
+where <name> is a directory (all tests within will be run) or a single
+.vgtest test file, or the name of a program which has a like-named .vgtest
+file.  Eg:
+
+  perl tests/vg_regtest memcheck
+  perl tests/vg_regtest memcheck/tests/badfree.vgtest
+  perl tests/vg_regtest memcheck/tests/badfree
+