> On 17 Jan 2022, at 02:11, 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>" ; \
That's a good point, and one few developers are likely to spot so thanks for raising the issue. To avoid replicating the wording we can do something like the attached as well. -- Daniel Gustafsson https://vmware.com/
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