On 11/01/2019 22:05, Tom Lane wrote: >> 2. If there's no pandoc, this coding silently produces a zero-size >> INSTALL file. I do not find that acceptable. > > Seems like it might be sufficient for the rule to be > > $(PANDOC) $< -t plain > $@.tmp > $(ICONV) -f utf8 -t us-ascii//TRANSLIT < $@.tmp > $@ > rm -f $@.tmp
Fixed. (We use the same pattern for the dtrace invocation.) I suppose the same issue would have existed with the previous rule using lynx, but no one has ever run into it. -- Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services