On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 4:58 PM Tim McNamara <tim@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.
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?