Re: The tarball's README has bad install instructions - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: The tarball's README has bad install instructions
Date
Msg-id 50C637FF.3060805@vmware.com
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In response to The tarball's README has bad install instructions  ("Karl O. Pinc" <kop@meme.com>)
Responses Re: The tarball's README has bad install instructions
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On 10.12.2012 21:19, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> The top-level README in the source tarball says:
>
> ------------------<snip>---------------------------
> See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install
> PostgreSQL.  That file also lists supported operating systems and
> hardware platforms and contains information regarding any other
> software packages that are required to build or run the PostgreSQL
> system.  Changes between all PostgreSQL releases are recorded in the
> file HISTORY.  Copyright and license information can be found in the
> file COPYRIGHT.  A comprehensive documentation set is included in this
> distribution; it can be read as described in the installation
> instructions.
> ------------------<snip>---------------------------
>
> There is no INSTALL file, and although there is documentation
> it's scattered in a bunch of sgml files.

Which tarball did you look at? The INSTALL file is there in the 9.2.2 
tarball at least:

~$ tar tvjf postgresql-9.2.2.tar.bz2 | grep INSTALL
-rw-r--r-- pgsql/pgsql   76825 2012-12-03 22:34 postgresql-9.2.2/INSTALL

Note that the INSTALL file is not present in the git repository, it's 
generated and included in the tarball. See README.git.

- Heikki



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