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bug #58794: Missing INSTALL file in GNU Make 4.3 archive

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Tue 21 Jul 2020 06:17:59 AM UTC
   
 
Severity:  3 - Normal Item Group:  Documentation
Status:  Fixed Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Closed
Component Version:  4.3 Operating System:  Any
Fixed Release:  4.4 Triage Status:  Small Effort
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Sun 29 Nov 2020 11:03:07 PM UTC, comment #2: 

I added some checking to the release process to ensure this file (and others) exist.

Paul D. Smith <psmith>
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Tue 21 Jul 2020 06:29:00 PM UTC, comment #1: 

This was reported to the mailing list back in April... I have no idea where that file went; the file exists in the source repository and I don't recall making any changes that would have caused it to not get added to the distribution.  I'll definitely check it out before the next release.

Thanks for reporting!

Paul D. Smith <psmith>
Group administrator
Tue 21 Jul 2020 06:17:59 AM UTC, original submission:  

Hi all,

Thanks for the great work with GNU Make!

I wanted to point out a small problem with GNU Make 4.3's documentation. When building from source using http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/make-4.3.tar.gz , I wanted to do things right and read the README to get installation instructions. The README does not contain these but says:

For source distribution building and installation instructions, see the file
INSTALL.

However, I can't find a file called INSTALL in the archive. I fell back to doing ./configure, make, make install as usual and that worked fine. But I think it would be good to include the INSTALL file! Apologies if I am being dense and just didn't find this file.

Best,
Martin

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    2020-11-29 psmith StatusNone Fixed
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed
        Fixed ReleaseNone 4.4
        Triage StatusNone Small Effort

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