Re: PostgreSQL-9.0alpha: jade required?

Tom -

Didn't realize I was arm waving - was I? (Sometimes email falls well short...)

We've managed a build of PostgreSQL 9.0-alpha4 - nice! However, the # make install command apparently(?) hiccups
on a dependency on Jade (we ain't usin' it!)

Here's the exact make install output:

- - - snip
make[3]: Entering directory `/media/SOURCES/postgresql-9.0alpha4/doc/src/sgml'
{ \
echo "<!entity version \"9.0alpha4\">"; \
echo "<!entity majorversion \"9.0\">"; \
} >version.sgml
"/usr/local/bin/perl" ./mk_feature_tables.pl YES ../../../src/backend/catalog/sql_feature_packages.txt ../../../src/backend/catalog/sql_features.txt > features-supported.sgml
"/usr/local/bin/perl" ./mk_feature_tables.pl NO ../../../src/backend/catalog/sql_feature_packages.txt ../../../src/backend/catalog/sql_features.txt > features-unsupported.sgml
jade -wall -wno-unused-param -wno-empty -wfully-tagged -D . -D . -c /usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets/catalog -d stylesheet.dsl -t sgml -i output-html -V html-index postgres.sgml
make[3]: jade: Command not found
make[3]: *** [HTML.index] Error 127
make[3]: Leaving directory `/media/SOURCES/postgresql-9.0alpha4/doc/src/sgml'
make[2]: *** [install] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/media/SOURCES/postgresql-9.0alpha4/doc/src'
make[1]: *** [install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/media/SOURCES/postgresql-9.0alpha4/doc'
make: *** [install] Error 2
- - - snip

Looking at the Error 127; chown'd all files to root, then tried the make install again - as root - with same result.

Got around this by commenting out the $DOC line in GNUmakefile's make install section, and seem to have installed rest of the build AOK…

Would it make sense: to have more granular control over docs build in the config script - specific kinds of docs/no docs at all/etc?

Thanks for any help, and for the great work! We love PostgreSQL!

Lou

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Lou Picciano" <loupicciano(at)comcast(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 11:08:19 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [BUGS] PostgreSQL-9.0alpha: jade required?

Lou Picciano <loupicciano(at)comcast(dot)net> writes:
> Not sure it's exactly a bug, but in attempting a compile of PostgreSQL-9.0alpha, we are getting a choke on jade (don't have jade on this system)
> Can the config script test for jade or, better yet, allow an option to turn off build of documentation?

Would you show exactly what happened rather than arm-waving? I'm sure
that the majority of the buildfarm machines don't have jade installed,
but they're getting through their builds OK.

(And yes, there *is* a configure check.)

regards, tom lane