Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Use DocBook XSL stylesheets for man page building This switches

On 8/15/09, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> On lör, 2009-08-15 at 09:53 +0100, Dave Page wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Stefan
>> Kaltenbrunner<stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> wrote:
>> >> His complaint is that we're now depending on a random website to be up
>> >> and reachable to generate the manpages :-( Is there a way we can have
>> >> the necessary stylesheets locally?
>> >
>> > yeah . having the doc builds depend on the availabilty of some random
>> > external website is fairly problematic and feels really wrong(and not an
>> > improvement in general at all)
>>
>> Hasn't this always been the case? When building the installers, I
>> occasionally have 'make html' fail because it can't reach sourceforge
>> (iirc).
>
> Only when you use an XSL-based toolchain, which make html has never
> been. You might have observed with with the HTMLHelp build.
>

Sorry, yes - 'make htmlhelp' is what I meant.

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Dave Page
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