Re: What does this configure warning mean?

Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 00:26 +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 15:06 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > > Simon Riggs wrote:
> > > >
> > > > When I run ./configure, I get
> > > >
> > > > (...warning..)
> > > > (If you are using the official distribution of PostgreSQL then you do
> > > > not need to worry about this because the Flex output is pre-generated.)
> > > >
> > > > Well, I am am using the official distribution of PostreSQL and the
> > > > output is not pre-generated. Clearly this message only comes when you
> > > > build Postgres from source, in which case the output cannot be
> > > > pre-generated (can it?).
> > >
> > > I take it "official distribution" means "tarball" as different from a
> > > copy obtained thru CVS.
> >
> > Maybe "If you are using an official release tarball of PostgreSQL", or
> > "an official release source code archive of PostgreSQL" if we want to
> > avoid the term "tarball".
>
> Something like...
>
> If you have downloaded a full copy of the source then....
> If you are building from a repository checkout ...
>
> We don't need to use the word tarball, but we do need to say what we
> mean. Anyway, its a seldom-used error message and I wouldn't have hit it
> if my laptop hadn't needed recovery.

With the attached patch, I have updated the message to use the wording
"bundled distribution". I think the point about the snapshot tarballs
and official releases is that they are "bundled" rather than pulled via
CVS.

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