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fix README file to be more verbose match actual situation (recomitted to push into 4.1)


mysql-test/README:
  fix README file to be more verbose match actual situation
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@@ -2,8 +2,17 @@ This directory contains a test suite for mysql daemon. To run
the currently existing test cases, simply execute ./mysql-test-run in
this directory. It will fire up the newly built mysqld and test it.

If you want to run the test with a running MySQL server use the --external
option to mysql-test-run.
If you want to run a test with a running MySQL server use the --extern
option to mysql-test-run. Please note that in this mode the test suite
expects user to specify test names to run. Otherwise it falls back to the
normal "non-extern" behaviour. The reason is that some tests
could not run with external server. Here is the sample command
to test "alias" and "analyze" tests on external server:

mysql-test-run --extern alias analyze

To match your setup you might also need to provide --socket, --user and
other relevant options.

Note that you do not have to have to do make install, and you could
actually have a co-existing MySQL installation - the tests will not