Re: Simplify documentation related to Windows builds

Hi,

On 2024-02-09 16:22:35 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
> index ed5b285a5e..af77352e6e 100644
> --- a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
> +++ b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
> @@ -193,6 +193,17 @@
> example, <literal>ICU_CFLAGS=' '</literal>.)
> </para>
> </listitem>
> +
> + <listitem>
> + <para>
> + <indexterm>
> + <primary>Diff</primary>
> + </indexterm>
> +
> + <productname>Diff</productname> is required to run the regression
> + tests. On Windows, it may not be available by default.
> + </para>
> + </listitem>
> </itemizedlist>
> </para>

It's not installed by default on a bunch of platforms, including in common
linux distros. The same is true for bison, flex etc, so I'm not sure it's
really worth calling this out here.

> - <varlistentry>
> - <term><productname>MIT Kerberos</productname></term>
> - <listitem><para>
> - Required for GSSAPI authentication support. MIT Kerberos can be
> - downloaded from
> - <ulink url="https://web.mit.edu/Kerberos/dist/index.html"></ulink>.
> - </para></listitem>
> - </varlistentry>

Btw, this is the only dependency that I hadn't been able to test on windows
when I was hacking on the CI stuff last. I'm not sure it relly still works.

Greetings,

Andres Freund