Re: Error Building Postgres 17.0 from Source

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Christophe Pettus <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com>
Cc: Corbin Cavolt <ccavolt(at)pm(dot)me>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Error Building Postgres 17.0 from Source
Date: 2024-10-04 19:05:24
Message-ID: 676935.1728068724@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Christophe Pettus <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com> writes:
> On Oct 4, 2024, at 09:35, Corbin Cavolt <ccavolt(at)pm(dot)me> wrote:
>> I'm having a problem building Postgres 17.0 from source. I'm able to build all the 16.x versions just fine; I'm running into an error specifically with version 17.0.

> You might try installing the Debian packages for the documentation tools; the lack of them is the usual reason for errors of that sort:
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/docguide-toolsets.html#DOCGUIDE-TOOLSETS-INST-DEBIAN

Yeah, that's what it looks like. I'm a bit confused though because
16.x should have failed the same way: building our docs without local
DTDs has failed for well over a year now [1]. Perhaps you weren't
trying to build the docs before?

regards, tom lane

[1] https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git&a=commitdiff&h=969509c3f

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