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    Remove configure-time probe for DocBook DTD. · 4823c4f6
    Tom Lane authored
    Checking for DocBook being installed was valuable when we were on the
    OpenSP docs toolchain, because that was rather hard to get installed
    fully.  Nowadays, as long as you have xmllint and xsltproc installed,
    you're good, because those programs will fetch the DocBook files off
    the net at need.  Moreover, testing this at configure time means that
    a network access may well occur whether or not you have any interest
    in building the docs later.  That can be slow (typically 2 or 3
    seconds, though much higher delays have been reported), and it seems
    not very nice to be doing an off-machine access without warning, too.
    
    Hence, drop the PGAC_CHECK_DOCBOOK probe, and adjust related
    documentation.  Without that macro, there's not much left of
    config/docbook.m4 at all, so I just removed it.
    
    Back-patch to v11, where we started to use xmllint in the
    PGAC_CHECK_DOCBOOK probe.
    
    Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E2EE6B76-2D96-408A-B961-CAE47D1A86F0@yesql.se
    Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/A55A7FC9-FA60-47FE-98B5-139CDC57CE6E@gmail.com
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