[Feedback]: Building a static binary package (mention the need to update submodules)

[aidanharris]

Doc Page link

https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/installing/static-binary-linux-packages

Description

Building a static binary package

To build the static binary 64-bit distribution package, run:

cd /path/to/netdata.git
./packaging/makeself/build-x86_64-static.sh

Suggested change:

cd /path/to/netdata.git
git submodule update --init --recursive
./packaging/makeself/build-x86_64-static.sh

It took me a while to realise why the build was failing.

[Ancairon]

Hey @aidanharris 👋 , thanks for the feedback! @netdata/agent-sre to evaluate that this is needed, and then I will make the change

[tkatsoulas]

Thanks for the feedback. hmmm this is a small part of the bigger issue (how you perform a cleanup/make sure that you are ready to build from source) let me give a little bit of thought and I will come back with a solution.