Re: INSTALL file

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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