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+The build infrastructure adds a "make test_NAME" target for each NAME.test
+file in this directory, and "make tests" iterates through all of them.
+
+Individual tests boil down to a call to "scripts/test.sh NAME", and
+testing all is "scripts/test.sh" with no arguments.
+
+The test infrastructure, including the shell functions each test calls
+(mostly "testcmd" and "optional") is described in scripts/test.sh