FAQ/lalpulsar.md

@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ cd lalpulsar/bin/Fstatistic/
 make check-am TESTS=testComputeFstatistic_v2
 ```
 
+Note that you **have** to do it like this: `cd` into the directory containing the test first. If you run from a different directory, you will get a `failed to create` error.
+
+Also it's better to use `check-am` for this than just `check`, because the latter recurses into subdirectories, and e.g. running a single check in `lalpulsar/test` would not work with it (because it tries to step down into `lalpulsar/test/python` instead).
+
 ## run multiple tests
 
 You can do the same thing to run multiple tests in the same directory:
@@ -23,8 +27,6 @@ cd lalpulsar/bin/Fstatistic/
 $ make check-am TESTS='testComputeFstatistic_v2 testComputeFstatistic_v2_resamp'
 ```
 
-Note that you **have** to do it like this: `cd` into the directory containing the test first. If you run from a different directory, you will get a `failed to create` error.
-
 ## verbose output
 
 Useful flags include: