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doc: note the system requirements for V8 tests #38319

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Expand Up @@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ to be cherry-picked in the Node.js repository and V8-CI must test the change.
* Run the Node.js [V8 CI][] in addition to the [Node.js CI][].
The CI uses the `test-v8` target in the `Makefile`, which uses
`tools/make-v8.sh` to reconstruct a git tree in the `deps/v8` directory to
run V8 tests.
run V8 tests<sup>2</sup>.

The [`git-node`][] tool can be used to simplify this task. Run
`git node v8 backport <sha>` to cherry-pick a commit.
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<sup>1</sup>Node.js 0.12 and older are intentionally omitted from this document
as their support has ended.

<sup>2</sup>The V8 tests still require Python 2. To run these tests locally,
you can run `PYTHON2 ./configure.py` before running `make test-v8`, in the root
of this repository. On macOS, this also requires a full Xcode install,
not just the "command line tools" for Xcode.

[ChromiumReleaseCalendar]: https://www.chromium.org/developers/calendar
[Node.js CI]: https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-test-pull-request/
[Node.js `canary` branch]: https://github.com/nodejs/node-v8/tree/canary
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