Álvaro Herrera wrote :
> What configure would have done is put the correct value of the
> DOCBOOKSTYLE variable in Makefile.global. In Josh's case,
> collateindex.pl was not found so the variable is empty, with the results
you see.
I see, thanks.
Tom Lane wrote :
> No, that would not be an improvement. If collateindex.pl were in your
> PATH, then configure would have found it (cf PGAC_PATH_COLLATEINDEX),
> and so COLLATEINDEX would be set and we'd not be here at all.
Ok
> Maybe the Makefile should just error out if COLLATEINDEX isn't set,
> rather than trying a "fallback" value that configure has already
> determined isn't going to work.
actually, now I understand what happened, I suggest adding an additional configure option
--disable-docs
and configure should baulk if neither --disable-docs nor collateindex.pl in the PATH.
That makes it explicit.
Cheers John