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tool cannot be found, and you'll see a warning.
* We have tests from upstream in `tests/spec`, in git submodules. Running
`./check.py` should update those.
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+Note that we are trying to gradually port the legacy wasm-opt tests to use `lit` and `filecheck` as we modify them.
+For `passes` tests that output wast, this can be done automatically with `scripts/port_passes_tests_to_lit.py` and for non-`passes` tests that output wast, see
+https://github.com/WebAssembly/binaryen/pull/4779 for an example of how to do a simple manual port.
### Setting up dependencies