[Haskell-cafe] ghc ./configure stalls on docbook DTD

[Donnie Jones]

Hello Dan,

Best place to ask is glasgow-haskell-users at 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 <danielkcook at 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)
>
>
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