Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org> writes: > On 2020-Nov-26, Paul Förster wrote: >> On 26. Nov, 2020, at 14:47, Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote: >>> My guess is that it's related to trying to obtain stylesheets from >>> remote Internet locations that are missing locally.
>> I don't know DocBook at all, so I can't say. But it takes about the >> same time, whether I run configure on a machine that is connected to >> the internet or one that isn't. > It might be timing out, then. (The docbook test takes well under a > second for me, but that's probably because I have all stylesheets > locally). 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. There's a nearby thread in which I was suggesting that we should just not bother with this configure test [1]. regards, tom lane [1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/E2EE6B76-2D96-408A-B961-CAE47D1A86F0%40yesql.se