Hi Daniel, As a first-time developer I don't know how the released README / INSTALL are generated. So it's quite unintuitive to find the README.git file.
I may expect an entry in README or a BUILD file when I obtain the sources by git clone, while a conventional ./configure && make works so it may be fine. I don't know why we need a different README.git file and cannot include INSTALL in the source cloned via git, so I cannot make suggestions here because the obvious solution is 'mv README.git INSTALL'. Best, tison. Daniel Gustafsson <dan...@yesql.se> 于2023年4月7日周五 04:21写道： > > 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 > >
