On 13/05/2009 19:53, Donnie Jones wrote:
Hello Dan,
Best place to ask is glasgow-haskell-us...@haskell.org since that is
the GHC users list.
I have CC'd your email to the GHC user list.
Cheers.
--
Donnie Jones
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Dan<danielkc...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Not sure if this is the right place to ask.
GHC 6.10.3 source dist: ./configure takes about 10 minutes to look for
DocBook DTD and another 10 to look for DocBook XSL directory. I was writing
this e-mail thinking it had completely crashed. Any reason why it's so
ridiculously slow? A look at 'top' says the CPU is mostly idle during this
time, but xmllint is running.
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?
Cheers,
Simon
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