configure script hangs looking for docbook

[dankamongmen]

we sat here for a good 30s on a machine that ended up actually having a satisfactory install, weird:

7186 ?        Ss     0:00  \_ sshd: dank [priv]
 7192 ?        S      0:00      \_ sshd: dank@pts/1
 7193 pts/1    Ss     0:00          \_ -bash
 8459 pts/1    S+     0:00              \_ /bin/bash ./configure
 9195 pts/1    S+     0:00                  \_ /usr/bin/xsltproc http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/xhtml/docbook.xsl

checking for epoll_create1... yes
checking for Docbook XSLT version current... yes
checking for pkg-config... pkg-config

[dankamongmen]

The package wasn't actually installed, so the delay here was it going and grabbing the stuff it needed from upstream. This actually kinda works, I guess? An annoying delay, though.

[dankamongmen]

By my recent experience, the thing we ought do is rewrite these using pandoc.

[dankamongmen]

Finally switched to pandoc!