fop rule broken? (was: How to generate PDF with Boost.Build / Boost.Build?)

From: Eric Niebler (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-29 13:40:08

David Abrahams wrote:
> Title says it all.
> 
> I can bjam --v2 html but not bjam --v2 pdf
> How is it done?
> 

I think this is broken as well, at least under cygwin. Back in the day, 
I got this working by following the steps at 
http://boost.org/doc/html/boostbook/fop.html. I added the following to 
my user-config.jam:

using fop : /home/catfood/fop-0.20.5/
: /cygdrive/c/Java/j2re1.4.2_06/
;

and this did the trick. But now, when I try to build a pdf, I get:

catfood_at_ericne-lap ~/boost/cvs/boost-sandbox/libs/xpressive/doc
$ bjam --v2 pdf
warning: toolset fop initialization:
warning: can't find user-provided command '/home/catfood/fop-0.20.5/'
warning: initialized from
...found 36 targets...
...updating 1 target...
fop.render ../../../bin.v2/libs/xpressive/doc/gcc/debug/xpressive.pdf
/home/catfood/fop-0.20.5/: not found

JAVA_HOME=/cygdrive/c/Java/j2re1.4.2_06/
/home/catfood/fop-0.20.5/ 
../../../bin.v2/libs/xpressive/doc/gcc/debug/xpressive.fo 
../../../bin.v2/libs/xpressive/doc/gcc/debug/xpressive.pdf

...failed fop.render 
../../../bin.v2/libs/xpressive/doc/gcc/debug/xpressive.pdf...
...failed updating 1 target...

I'm not sure when this stopped working, and I don't recall doing 
anything to my environment that would affect this.

After a bit of fiddling, I got it working again by using 
/home/catfood/fop-0.20.5/fop.sh as FOP_DIR and by setting JAVACMD envar 
to point directly to my java.exe. But this shouldn't be necessary, and 
at the very least, the documentation is wrong.

-- 
Eric Niebler
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com