Re: meson documentation build open issues

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: meson documentation build open issues
Date: 2023-11-14 10:58:53
Message-ID: dbbec835-bef9-4ae9-af16-24c7b08ef2d2@eisentraut.org
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On 09.11.23 18:52, Andres Freund wrote:
>> Besides giving you a quick validity check of the XML, this also builds the
>> doc_generated, which draw from non-doc source files, so this would also
>> serve to check that those are sound and didn't mess up the docs.
> Unfortunately presence of xmllint doesn't guarantee presence of the relevant
> DTDs. Without docbook-xml installed, you'll get something like
>
> ../../../../../home/andres/src/postgresql/doc/src/sgml/postgres.sgml:21: warning: failed to load external entity"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd"
> ]>
> ^
>
> and a bunch of other subsequent errors.
>
>
> I think if we want to do this, we'd need a configure time check for being able
> to validate a document with
> <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN""http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd"...

We used to have exactly such a check in configure, but it was removed in
4823c4f6ac. I suppose we could look into reviving that.

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