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Re: configure and DocBook XML

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>

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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Paul Förster <paul.foerster@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2020-11-26T13:47:06Z
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On 2020-Nov-26, Paul Förster wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I always compile PostgreSQL from source and never install a pre-compiled package. When I run configure, the last check, which is for DocBook XML always takes very long compared to all others. It's about 15 to 20 secs or so. I noticed that with many configure scripts, not only the one of PostgreSQL. Why is that?

My guess is that it's related to trying to obtain stylesheets from
remote Internet locations that are missing locally.

Commits

  1. Remove configure-time probe for DocBook DTD.