diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 004ff5d3886..ad55bb20bc9 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1869,6 +1869,7 @@ Surface_mesher/examples/Surface_mesher/ImageIO/reech4x4.c -text
 Surface_mesher/examples/Surface_mesher/ImageIO/reech4x4.h -text
 Surface_mesher/examples/Surface_mesher/ImageIO/typedefs.h -text
 Surface_mesher/examples/Surface_mesher/NOTICE -text
+Surface_mesher/examples/Surface_mesher/cgal_test -text
 Surface_mesher/examples/Surface_mesher/implicit_functions.h -text
 Surface_mesher/examples/Surface_mesher/inputs/ALSTOM_TEST4.off -text
 Surface_mesher/examples/Surface_mesher/inputs/boeing.off -text
diff --git a/Surface_mesher/changes.txt b/Surface_mesher/changes.txt
index fb8a78da844..729e8afd0b8 100644
--- a/Surface_mesher/changes.txt
+++ b/Surface_mesher/changes.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 17 March 2006 Laurent Rineai
 - modified examples/Surface_mesher/makefile, to have ImageIO compiled on
-Sun
+  Sun
+- added examples/Surface_mesher/cgal_test, so that the testsuite does not
+  try to compile and run examples/Surface_mesher/implicit_functions
 
 15 March 2006 Laurent Rineau
 - Added macro CGAL_SURFACE_MESHER_DEBUG_CONSTRUCTORS to strace constructors
diff --git a/Surface_mesher/examples/Surface_mesher/cgal_test b/Surface_mesher/examples/Surface_mesher/cgal_test
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..a5d48643b5e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Surface_mesher/examples/Surface_mesher/cgal_test
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+#! /bin/sh
+
+# This is a script for the CGAL test suite. Such a script must obey
+# the following rules:
+#
+# - the name of the script is cgal_test
+# - for every target two one line messages are written to the file 'error.txt'
+#     the first one indicates if the compilation was successful
+#     the second one indicates if the execution was successful
+#   if one of the two was not successful, the line should start with 'ERROR:'
+# - running the script should not require any user interaction
+# - the script should clean up object files and executables
+
+ERRORFILE=error.txt
+
+#---------------------------------------------------------------------#
+#                    compile_and_run <target>
+#---------------------------------------------------------------------#
+
+compile_and_run()
+{
+  echo "Compiling $1 ... "
+  SUCCES="y"
+  if eval 'make CGAL_MAKEFILE=$CGAL_MAKEFILE \
+           TESTSUITE_CXXFLAGS="$TESTSUITE_CXXFLAGS" \
+           TESTSUITE_LDFLAGS="$TESTSUITE_LDFLAGS" $1' ; then
+    echo "   succesful compilation of $1" >> $ERRORFILE
+  else
+    echo "   ERROR:    compilation of $1" >> $ERRORFILE
+    SUCCES=""
+  fi
+
+  if [ -n "${SUCCES}" ] ; then
+     OUTPUTFILE=ProgramOutput.$1.$PLATFORM
+    rm -f $OUTPUTFILE
+    COMMAND="./$1"
+    if [ -f $1.cmd ] ; then
+      COMMAND="$COMMAND `cat $1.cmd`"
+    fi
+    if [ -f $1.cin ] ; then
+      COMMAND="cat $1.cin | $COMMAND"
+    fi
+    echo "Executing $1 ... "
+    echo
+    ulimit -t 1200
+    if eval $COMMAND > $OUTPUTFILE 2>&1 ; then
+      echo "   succesful execution   of $1" >> $ERRORFILE
+    else
+      echo "   ERROR:    execution   of $1" >> $ERRORFILE
+    fi
+  else
+    echo   "   ERROR:    not executed   $1" >> $ERRORFILE
+  fi
+
+  eval "make CGAL_MAKEFILE=$CGAL_MAKEFILE clean > /dev/null 2>&1 "
+}
+
+#---------------------------------------------------------------------#
+#                    remove the previous error file
+#---------------------------------------------------------------------#
+
+rm -f $ERRORFILE
+touch $ERRORFILE
+
+#---------------------------------------------------------------------#
+#                    compile and run the tests
+#---------------------------------------------------------------------#
+
+if [ $# -ne 0 ] ; then
+  for file in $* ; do
+    compile_and_run $file
+  done
+else
+  compile_and_run 3d_image_surface_mesher
+  compile_and_run implicit_surface_mesher
+fi
+