Christophe Pettus <[email protected]> writes:
> On Oct 4, 2024, at 12:05, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Yeah, that's what it looks like. I'm a bit confused though because
>> 16.x should have failed the same way: building our docs without local
>> DTDs has failed for well over a year now [1].
> To add confusion to the fire, I was successfully building pre-17 versions
> ("make world") locally on MacOS fine without having to install the
> documentation tools. It wasn't until 17 that it failed (and installing the
> doc tools as recommended fixed it).
If you had a locally installed copy of the required DTDs, it should've
worked, but otherwise I don't see how ... oh, wait. Were you building
from a source tarball? If so, the difference is that up to v16 we
included prebuilt HTML docs in the tarballs, but as of v17 we don't.
So "make world" now triggers a local docs build where before it
didn't.
You can restore things to the status quo ante if you also download
the now-separate docs tarball, eg
https://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/source/v17.0/postgresql-17.0-docs.tar.gz
and unpack that into the same place as the main source tarball.
regards, tom lane
