On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 4:58 PM Tim McNamara <t...@mcnamara.nz> wrote:
> Hello, > > I encountered a minor road bump when checking out the pg source today. The > Makefile's all target includes the following help message if GNUmakefile > isn't available: > > echo "You need to run the 'configure' program first. See the file"; \ > echo "'INSTALL' for installation instructions." ; \ > > After consulting README.git, it looks as though INSTALL isn't created > unless the source is bundled into a release or snapshot tarball. I'm happy > to submit a patch to update the wording, but wanted to check on the > preferred approach. > > Perhaps this would be sufficient? > > echo "You need to run the 'configure' program first. See the file"; \ > echo "'INSTALL' for installation instructions, or visit" ; \ > echo "<https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/installation.html>" ; \ > > -Tim > I noticed a similar thing in the README of the github repository. It asks to see the INSTALL file for build and installation instructions but I couldn't find that file and that confused me. This might confuse other new developers as well. So, maybe we should update the text in the README too? Regards, Samay
