[publican-list] Publican 2.9 slight foible

[Norman Dunbar]

Hi Jeff,


On 01/02/12 22:46, Jeff Fearn wrote:
>> PS. Did you know that 2.9 builds on OpenSuse 12.1? I did a test build
>> yesterday and it works. If I was to write up a set of instructions on
>> building publican from source on OpenSuse, would you want it for the
>> User's Guide?
>
> Hell yeah :)
Ok. Consider it done!

> You can either apply for membership of the FAS group to get commit
> access, or you can open a bug and attach the XML and we'll get it
> included in 2.9.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=787243

> Awesome work, thanks :)
No problem. Just giving a little back.

Anyway, if you are interested, I built a new 12.1  install in a 
VirtualBox VM and followed the instructions in the new chapter. All went 
well, except:

Build test: Cannot build the PDF with FOP. Java Null Pointer Exception. 
This doesn't happen with a large (200 plus pages) pdf of my own, or a 
quick test with publican create --type book - just, so far, the user guide.

publican build cannot build epubs on OpenSuse. It works fine on Fedora 
16. (I've put a note to this effect in the manual.)

OpenSuse cannot install wkhtmltopdf as the ghostscript-fonts are called 
ghostscript-fonts-std on OpenSuse. I tried to force it in with a nodeps 
check which was fine, but it doesn't create PDfs at all.


I also managed to get Publican 2.9 installed on OpenSuse 11.4 - by 
adding a few more modules using cpan, but it's a wee bit flaky.

Had a lot of fun sorting it out though! ;-)

And as for current trunk, let's not go there! :-(


Cheers,
Norm.

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