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Expand Up @@ -863,6 +863,12 @@ basic errors before you submit a patch.
Run F<miniperl> on F<t/base>, F<t/comp>, F<t/cmd>, F<t/run>, F<t/io>,
F<t/op>, F<t/uni> and F<t/mro> tests.

F<miniperl> is a minimalistic perl built to bootstrap building
extensions, utilties, documentation etc. It doesn't support dynamic
loading and depending on the point in the build process will only have
access to a limited set of core modules. F<miniperl> is not intended
for day to day use.

=item * test.valgrind check.valgrind

(Only in Linux) Run all the tests using the memory leak + naughty
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