Re: [Haskell-cafe] ghc ./configure stalls on docbook DTD
On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 12:09 +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: 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? Oh, yes, use --nonet to both xmllint and xsltproc. That's what we do for the Cabal user guide which is still using xml docbook, along with: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=US-ASCII? !DOCTYPE article PUBLIC -//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd; I expect the uri -//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN is required so that it can match the uri in the local catalog. Duncan ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] ghc ./configure stalls on docbook DTD
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, Dandanielkc...@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 ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
[Haskell-cafe] ghc ./configure stalls on docbook DTD
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. Mac OS X uname -a: Darwin 9.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.6.0: Mon Nov 24 17:37:00 PST 2008; root:xnu-1228.9.59~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 CookBook:ghc-6.10.3 dan$ ./configure checking build system type... i386-apple-darwin9.6.0 checking host system type... i386-apple-darwin9.6.0 checking target system type... i386-apple-darwin9.6.0 Canonicalised to: i386-apple-darwin [blah blah blah] checking for xmllint... /usr/bin/xmllint checking for DocBook DTD... (blocks for ages) begin:vcard fn:Daniel K. Cook n:Cook;Daniel K. email;internet:danielkc...@gmail.com tel;cell:+44 (0) 7949 125 491 x-mozilla-html:TRUE version:2.1 end:vcard ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] ghc ./configure stalls on docbook DTD
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. Mac OS X uname -a: Darwin 9.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.6.0: Mon Nov 24 17:37:00 PST 2008; root:xnu-1228.9.59~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 CookBook:ghc-6.10.3 dan$ ./configure checking build system type... i386-apple-darwin9.6.0 checking host system type... i386-apple-darwin9.6.0 checking target system type... i386-apple-darwin9.6.0 Canonicalised to: i386-apple-darwin [blah blah blah] checking for xmllint... /usr/bin/xmllint checking for DocBook DTD... (blocks for ages) ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
