Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1swncY-0066ah-De for pgsql-general@arkaria.postgresql.org; Fri, 04 Oct 2024 19:05:47 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=malur.postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1swncX-004Q4O-6U for pgsql-general@arkaria.postgresql.org; Fri, 04 Oct 2024 19:05:45 +0000 Received: from magus.postgresql.org ([2a02:c0:301:0:ffff::29]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1swncW-004Q4F-Qs for pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org; Fri, 04 Oct 2024 19:05:44 +0000 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us ([68.162.161.243]) by magus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1swncO-002YFF-Gs for pgsql-general@postgresql.org; Fri, 04 Oct 2024 19:05:44 +0000 Received: from sss1.sss.pgh.pa.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 494J5OVs676936; Fri, 4 Oct 2024 15:05:24 -0400 From: Tom Lane To: Christophe Pettus cc: Corbin Cavolt , "pgsql-general@postgresql.org" Subject: Re: Error Building Postgres 17.0 from Source In-reply-to: References: Comments: In-reply-to Christophe Pettus message dated "Fri, 04 Oct 2024 09:41:11 -0700" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <676934.1728068724.1@sss.pgh.pa.us> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2024 15:05:24 -0400 Message-ID: <676935.1728068724@sss.pgh.pa.us> List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Archived-At: Precedence: bulk Christophe Pettus writes: > On Oct 4, 2024, at 09:35, Corbin Cavolt wrote: >> I'm having a problem building Postgres 17.0 from source. I'm able to bu= ild all the 16.x versions just fine; I'm running into an error specificall= y 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-T= OOLSETS-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=3Dpostgresql.git&a=3Dcommitdiff&h= =3D969509c3f