Hi all,
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.
Roman
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