test-manual/intro: bitbake-selftest needs bitbake

Without adding bitbake/bin to the PATH, some tests will fail when
they cannot find the main bitbake script.

(From yocto-docs rev: 1bbeb83bbff71a670ced81146732f04a947473b5)

Signed-off-by: Zachary T Welch <zach@aquabyte.ai>
Reviewed-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Schulz <foss+yocto@0leil.net>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

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diff --git a/documentation/test-manual/intro.rst b/documentation/test-manual/intro.rst
index c445e28a7e..12324e592c 100644
--- a/documentation/test-manual/intro.rst
+++ b/documentation/test-manual/intro.rst
@@ -175,8 +175,14 @@ Tests map into the codebase as follows:
    which include the fetchers. The tests are located in
    ``bitbake/lib/*/tests``.
 
+   Some of these tests run the ``bitbake`` command, so ``bitbake/bin``
+   must be added to the ``PATH`` before running ``bitbake-selftest``.
    From within the BitBake repository, run the following::
 
+      $ export PATH=$PWD/bin:$PATH
+
+   After that, you can run the selftest script::
+
       $ bitbake-selftest
 
    The default output is quiet and just prints a summary of what was