Re: [Boost-docs] Building pdf documentation for 1.46 fails on Linux

Subject: Re: [Boost-docs] Building pdf documentation for 1.46 fails on Linux
From: John Maddock (boost.regex_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-03 09:59:25

> As there don't seem to be downloadable tarballs for the boost 
> documentation
> I'm trying to build them myself in order to include them in the openSUSE
> boost packages.

It's at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost-docs/1.46.0/

> Building the pdf documentation (JimiProClasses.jar in /usr/share/java) 
> fails
> with the messages below. Can somebody help me fix these build failures? 
> BTW,
> the java error seems not not to depend on java version as both sun java
> and openJDK issue the same error messages.

No idea but it appears to be a FOP issue, note that many of Boost's docs do 
not build correctly with FOP anyway (or didn't last I checked), that's why 
we provide XEP built versions.

HTH, John.