> On 6 Apr 2023, at 22:13, tison <wander4...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Hackers,
>
> I opened https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=tree and clone
> the repo. The README file says that I can read the INSTALL file to understand
> how to build from source. But there is no such file in Git sources. Is it
> expected? If so, why?
it's very expected, the README.git file contains:
"In a release or snapshot tarball of PostgreSQL, a documentation file
named INSTALL will appear in this directory. However, this file is not
stored in git and so will not be present if you are using a git
checkout."
The INSTALL file was removed in 54d314c93c0baf5d3bd303d206d8ab9f58be1c37 a long
time ago.
That being said, maybe README should have wording along the lines of the above
since it's now referring to a file which might not exist?
--
Daniel Gustafsson
