Re: port of INSTALL file generation to XSLT

On 11/01/2019 22:05, Tom Lane wrote:
>> 2. If there's no pandoc, this coding silently produces a zero-size
>> INSTALL file.  I do not find that acceptable.
> 
> Seems like it might be sufficient for the rule to be
> 
>     $(PANDOC) $< -t plain > $@.tmp
>     $(ICONV) -f utf8 -t us-ascii//TRANSLIT < $@.tmp > $@
>     rm -f $@.tmp

Fixed.  (We use the same pattern for the dtrace invocation.)

I suppose the same issue would have existed with the previous rule using
lynx, but no one has ever run into it.

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