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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2020-11-30 15:24:13 -0500
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2020-11-30 15:24:13 -0500
commit4823c4f6ac770ebd49b63b0ce64ecfe82987af57 (patch)
treec5d54937299eb65fd33b6944f48a18f3aa042ab9 /aclocal.m4
parent275b3411d9189b3974687766db06727d64d22979 (diff)
downloadpostgresql-4823c4f6ac770ebd49b63b0ce64ecfe82987af57.tar.gz
Remove configure-time probe for DocBook DTD.
Checking for DocBook being installed was valuable when we were on the OpenSP docs toolchain, because that was rather hard to get installed fully. Nowadays, as long as you have xmllint and xsltproc installed, you're good, because those programs will fetch the DocBook files off the net at need. Moreover, testing this at configure time means that a network access may well occur whether or not you have any interest in building the docs later. That can be slow (typically 2 or 3 seconds, though much higher delays have been reported), and it seems not very nice to be doing an off-machine access without warning, too. Hence, drop the PGAC_CHECK_DOCBOOK probe, and adjust related documentation. Without that macro, there's not much left of config/docbook.m4 at all, so I just removed it. Back-patch to v11, where we started to use xmllint in the PGAC_CHECK_DOCBOOK probe. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E2EE6B76-2D96-408A-B961-CAE47D1A86F0@yesql.se Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/A55A7FC9-FA60-47FE-98B5-139CDC57CE6E@gmail.com
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diff --git a/aclocal.m4 b/aclocal.m4
index bfd34ecec8..5e22482cd5 100644
--- a/aclocal.m4
+++ b/aclocal.m4
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ m4_include([config/ax_pthread.m4])
m4_include([config/c-compiler.m4])
m4_include([config/c-library.m4])
m4_include([config/check_decls.m4])
-m4_include([config/docbook.m4])
m4_include([config/general.m4])
m4_include([config/libtool.m4])
m4_include([config/llvm.m4])