Re: New developer papercut - Makefile references INSTALL

> On 17 Jan 2022, at 02:11, Tim McNamara <tim@mcnamara.nz> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I encountered a minor road bump when checking out the pg source today. The Makefile's all target includes the
followinghelp message if GNUmakefile isn't available:  
>
>  echo "You need to run the 'configure' program first. See the file"; \
>  echo "'INSTALL' for installation instructions." ; \
>
> After consulting README.git, it looks as though INSTALL isn't created unless the source is bundled into a release or
snapshottarball. I'm happy to submit a patch to update the wording, but wanted to check on the preferred approach. 
>
> Perhaps this would be sufficient?
>
>  echo "You need to run the 'configure' program first. See the file"; \
>  echo "'INSTALL' for installation instructions, or visit" ; \
>  echo "<https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/installation.html>" ; \

That's a good point, and one few developers are likely to spot so thanks for
raising the issue.  To avoid replicating the wording we can do something like
the attached as well.

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