Index: docs/TestingGuide.rst
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--- docs/TestingGuide.rst
+++ docs/TestingGuide.rst
@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@
 software required to build LLVM, as well as `Python <http://python.org>`_ 2.7 or
 later.
 
+If you intend to run the :ref:`test-suite <test-suite-overview>`, you will also
+need a development version of zlib (zlib1g-dev is known to work on several Linux
+distributions).
+
 LLVM testing infrastructure organization
 ========================================
 
@@ -535,6 +539,8 @@
 (b) it speeds things up for really big test cases by avoiding
     interpretation of the remainder of the file.
 
+.. _test-suite-overview:
+
 ``test-suite`` Overview
 =======================