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+[NOTE: this code is no longer used -- for now these tests are in the
+ standalone directory.  What'll happen longer-term is uncertain...]
+
+
 This directory contains tests for Guile's C API.  At the moment, the
 test suite doesn't have any way to run these automatically --- we need
 to 1) figure out how to run the compiler, and 2) figure out how to