Re: MacOS: xsltproc fails with "warning: failed to load external entity"

Hi,

On 2023-01-31 18:54:31 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> 1. I have not tested the meson changes.

Works here.


> 2. As this is written, you can't override the --nonet options very
> easily in the Makefile build (you could do so at runtime by setting
> XSLTPROC, but not at configure time); and you can't override them at
> all in the meson build.  Given the lack of evidence that it's still
> useful to allow net access, I'm untroubled by that.  I did intentionally
> skip using "override" in the Makefile, though, to allow that case.

I'm not troubled by this either.


I wonder if we should provide a build target to download the stylesheets
ourselves. The amount of packages our instructions download is quite
substantial. We could perhaps trim them a bit, but we intentionally are
including things to build pdfs etc as well, which does make sense...


Greetings,

Andres Freund