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Re: MacOS: xsltproc fails with "warning: failed to load external entity"

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Date: 2023-02-01T00:22:06Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Hi,

On 2023-01-31 18:54:31 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> 1. I have not tested the meson changes.

Works here.


> 2. As this is written, you can't override the --nonet options very
> easily in the Makefile build (you could do so at runtime by setting
> XSLTPROC, but not at configure time); and you can't override them at
> all in the meson build.  Given the lack of evidence that it's still
> useful to allow net access, I'm untroubled by that.  I did intentionally
> skip using "override" in the Makefile, though, to allow that case.

I'm not troubled by this either.


I wonder if we should provide a build target to download the stylesheets
ourselves. The amount of packages our instructions download is quite
substantial. We could perhaps trim them a bit, but we intentionally are
including things to build pdfs etc as well, which does make sense...


Greetings,

Andres Freund

Commits

  1. docs: meson: Change what 'docs' target builds

  2. doc: Fix XML_CATALOG_FILES env var for Apple Silicon machines

  3. doc: fix Apple Silicon Homebrew prefix change documentation

  4. doc: Fix XML_CATALOG_FILES env var for Apple M1 machines

  5. Stop recommending auto-download of DTD files, and indeed disable it.