On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 12:09 +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: > I have the following complaint from Roman in my inbox, which I think is > about the same thing: > > > one big nuisance when building ghc is that configure tries to connect > > to the internet. The culprit is the FP_GEN_DOCBOOK_XML macro in > > aclocal.m4 which is used when checking for DocBook DTD. It generates > > an XML file which references http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2 > > /docbookx.dtd and then runs xmllint which, naturally, wants to load > > the dtd. Depending on the quality of my internet connection and on > > the availability of oasis-open.org this check sometimes (infrequently > > but very annoyingly) takes up to a 2 or 3 minutes for me. Given that > > the DTD in question can be freely copied, why not redistribute it > > with ghc? > > > Another www reference is in FP_GEN_FO (to > > http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format) but that never seems to bite me. > > I know almost but not quite exactly nothing about how to find DTDs. But > I do recall that Duncan mentioned to me recently that there's a much > better way to do this - Duncan?
Oh, yes, use --nonet to both xmllint and xsltproc. That's what we do for the Cabal user guide which is still using xml docbook, along with: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?> <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd"; > I expect the uri "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN" is required so that it can match the uri in the local catalog. Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
