| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: What does this configure warning mean? |
| Date: | 2010-02-22 18:13:21 |
| Message-ID: | 20100222181321.GE4629@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
> > 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.
That's too subtle. I wouldn't figure out what it means if my life
depended on it (then again, it doesn't).
--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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