building docs on cygwin, and finding fop.sh..

Sven Panne Sven.Panne at aedion.de
Thu May 26 07:08:49 EDT 2005


Simon Marlow wrote:
> Here's a suggested action plan based on what Claus has raised:
> 
>   - We disable the use of xmltex for now.  It just doesn't work
>     when building the Users' Guide.  Perhaps it can be enabled
>     if explicitly requested, but configure won't use it by default.
> 
>   - we make configure look for fop.sh as well as fop, as suggested
> 
> I think that pretty much covers it.  It'll prevent people going down the
> xmltex blind-alley (I did that too, but gave up earlier than Claus did).
> 
> Sven, as DocBook/XML king, do you agree?

Seems OK to me, but perhaps we can disable xmltex only on WinDoze builds?

Cheers,
    S.


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