Re: configure and DocBook XML

Paul Foerster <paul.foerster@gmail.com>

From: Paul Förster <paul.foerster@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2020-11-26T16:32:23Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi Tom,

> On 26. Nov, 2020, at 17:21, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> 
> On machines where I don't have the stylesheets installed, it always
> takes several seconds (2 or 3, I think, though I've not put a stopwatch
> on it).  15 to 20 sec does seem like a lot, so it makes me wonder if
> Paul's network environment is well-configured.

can't complain here. The net and all other stuff run smoothly. No timeouts, no things being slow or any other problem.

> There's a nearby thread in which I was suggesting that we should just
> not bother with this configure test [1].
> [1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/E2EE6B76-2D96-408A-B961-CAE47D1A86F0%40yesql.se

I haven't installed DocBook at all. So the check for DocBook naturally always fails. Could that be the reason?

Cheers,
Paul


Commits

  1. Remove configure-time probe for DocBook DTD.