On 2023-11-17 11:41, Guy Harris wrote:
Perhaps the currently-52-lines-long (as of 2023c) README file could, in the section that talks about building the code, more vigorously point people either to the Makefile, as it does now, or to a separate document (which, if it contains just text, might be more readable than a Makefile comment), including explicitly saying "IF YOU'RE ON AN OLDER SYSTEM, SUCH AS RHEL 7/CENTOS whatever, YOU NEED TO READ THIS SECTION OF THIS DOCUMENT AND DO WHAT IT SAYS IF YOU WANT TO COMPILE THIS CODE".
Thanks, I added some wording along those lines in the patches I just installed; see my recent email[1]. I didn't emphasize the wording by capitalizing it, though, as I figured overemphasizing it might distract from other important stuff that's also in README. I also edited Makefile[2] to make it more clear how to tailor its settings, including an example for this RHEL 7 issue, as well as to fix some of Makefile's incompatibilities with POSIX that I noticed while I was in the neighborhood. Although at some point we could add an FAQ file, a proper FAQ would be considerably more work. [1]: https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2023-November/033250.html [2]: https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2023-November/033249.html