README.md file in v0.* releases is unhelpful

[stampycode]

Contents of node-v0.12.7-linux-x64.tar.gz :

stampy@dev04 ~/node-v0.12.7-linux-x64 $ ls -l
total 232
drwxr-xr-x. 2 stampy stampy     27 Jul 10 00:19 bin
-rw-r--r--. 1 stampy stampy 167851 Jul 10 00:19 ChangeLog
drwxr-xr-x. 3 stampy stampy     17 Jul 10 00:19 include
drwxr-xr-x. 3 stampy stampy     25 Jul 10 00:19 lib
-rw-r--r--. 1 stampy stampy  60789 Jul 10 00:19 LICENSE
-rw-r--r--. 1 stampy stampy   4257 Jul 10 00:19 README.md
drwxr-xr-x. 4 stampy stampy     32 Jul 10 00:19 share

Build instructions in README.md:

./configure
make
make install

Is there a ./configure file ? Nope.

So either the README.md file is wrong, or there are files missing from the archive.

[targos]

See #2338 and #2885

The build instructions in the README only apply to the source code archive of the project. Here you downloaded the prebuilt archive.

There is a PR to improve the README here: #2340