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README.md broken link to INSTALL #406

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drf5n opened this issue Mar 10, 2023 · 2 comments
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README.md broken link to INSTALL #406

drf5n opened this issue Mar 10, 2023 · 2 comments

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@drf5n
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drf5n commented Mar 10, 2023

From https://github.com/mdbtools/mdbtools the README.md file has a broken link to INSTALL pointing to the non-existent https://github.com/mdbtools/mdbtools/blob/dev/INSTALL file:

A list of general options is available in the [INSTALL](./INSTALL) file, and

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rhurlin commented Mar 10, 2023

That change happened in the year 2013:

commit a636923
Author: Nirgal Vourgère [email protected]
Date: Sun Jul 14 21:35:06 2013 +0200

Drop autogen.sh: Do use autoconf

Automake is changing and some of the stuff in autogen.sh is expected to fail
soon:
https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Future-of-aclocal.html

"autoreconf -if" will overwrite the INSTALL file, so its content is now in the
README file.

Added NEWS warning

Adjusted .gitignore

So it seems, all the content should be in the README file, and removing the link from the README.md is save.

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drf5n commented Mar 10, 2023

I posted PR #407

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