[svn-r11190] Purpose:

Updated RELEASE.txt

Description:
Added/updated recent makefiles changes (test logs, make check-clean) in
RELEASE.txt

Platforms tested:
Textual change only

Misc. update:

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
index 67dd598..da1f4fc 100644
--- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
+++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
@@ -36,12 +36,21 @@ New Features
 
     Configuration:
     --------------
-	- When make is invoked in parallel (using -j), sequential tests
-	  are now executed simultaneously.  This should make them execute
-	  more quickly on some machines.
-	  Also, when tests pass, they will create a foo.chkexe file.
+	- Test execution has changed in a number of ways:
+	  When make is invoked in parallel (using -j), sequential tests
+	  are now executed as parallel make targets.  This should make them
+	  finish more quickly on machines with multiple processors.
+	  Since test output is garbled when they execute in parallel,
+	  tests now dump their output to foo.log files and foo.logsh files
+	  (for test scripts).  These logs are printed to the screen only
+	  when a test fails or when all tests in the current directory have
+	  completed successfully.
+	  When tests pass, they will create a foo.chkexe or foo.chksh file.
 	  This prevents the test from executing again until the test or
 	  main library changes.
+	  All files generated by tests (*.chkexe, *.log, and any *.h5 files
+	  created) can be removed by invoking 'make check-clean'.
+	    -JML 2005/08/03
         - On windows, all.zip is deprecated. users should
              read INSTALL_Windows.txt to know the details.
              Reasons to deprecate all.zip: