PDF doc build is broken on recent Fedora

Hello Tom,
13.02.2020 23:37, Tom Lane wrote:

By chance I tried to build our PDF docs on a Fedora 30
installation, and it doesn't work. xsltproc seems to
get hung up in a tight loop before it starts to produce
any output. The HTML build works fine, though.

Relevant package versions:

docbook-style-xsl-1.79.2-9.fc30.noarch
libxslt-1.1.33-1.fc30.x86_64

Anybody seen this, or have an idea what to poke at?

I've just reproduced this on Fedora 29, 30, 31.
On Fedora 29 I see almost the same package versions:
docbook-style-xsl-1.79.2-8.fc29.noarch
libxslt-1.1.33-1.fc29.x86_64

But it's not reproduced on Fedora 28, where I have:
docbook-style-xsl-1.79.2-7.fc28.noarch
libxslt-1.1.32-2.fc28.x86_64

I will explore this further...

Best regards,
Alexander

15.02.2020 12:09, Alexander Lakhin wrote:

I've just reproduced this on Fedora 29, 30, 31.
On Fedora 29 I see almost the same package versions:
docbook-style-xsl-1.79.2-8.fc29.noarch
libxslt-1.1.33-1.fc29.x86_64

But it's not reproduced on Fedora 28, where I have:
docbook-style-xsl-1.79.2-7.fc28.noarch
libxslt-1.1.32-2.fc28.x86_64

I will explore this further...

It seems Peter was here first:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt/issues/16

Best regards,
Alexander

Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com> writes:

It seems Peter was here first:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt/issues/16

Indeed. Looks like I need to pester Fedora to absorb that fix.

Thanks for doing the research!

regards, tom lane