Re: INSTALL file - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: INSTALL file
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Msg-id 2a88d921-f1c8-6b82-ba7f-e58f14cdcf68@2ndQuadrant.com
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In response to INSTALL file  ("Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum" <ads@pgug.de>)
Responses Re: INSTALL file  (Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum <ads@pgug.de>)
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On 10/28/2018 08:13 AM, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> while working with Google Code-In students, there is one task: "clone 
> PostgreSQL from git repository, and build from source".
>
> This brought up an interesting problem: the README refers to an 
> "INSTALL" file, which is present in packages, but not in the source 
> repo. This is very confusing for beginners, and should be avoided.
>
> There are a couple options to fix this:
>
>  1. Update the README, and remove the "INSTALL" reference
>  2. Create a permanent INSTALL file, and possibly overwrite it during
>     packaging
>  3. Add different INSTALL files, based on the platform (Linux, BSD,
>     Windows, Source)
>
>
> Regards,
>
>



See README.git

cheers

andrew

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