Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> On 2020-11-26 18:24, Tom Lane wrote:
>> This came up again today on another thread [1], so I took a second look
>> and confirmed that configure's test is completely dead code. So here is
>> a patch to remove it outright, mooting the question of whether it ought
>> to use --no-net.
> Yes, this seems fine. docbook.m4 used to do more interesting things,
> when we had DSSSL, and no catalog mechanisms, and generally more
> complicated installations. It also served as a sort of test suite, when
> if someone complained that they can't build the documentation, we could
> look at config.log to see if their tools were installed correctly. But
> right now it's not that interesting anymore.
Check.
> Backpatching to PG11 should be okay. Before that, it's different tools.
Ah, I see there used to be more things in docbook.m4, so removing the
file altogether isn't feasible before v11. But we could still drop
the PGAC_CHECK_DOCBOOK macro, no? Even in the older branches, there
is nothing paying attention to have_docbook.
regards, tom lane
