Re: [ jEdit-devel ] Compiling the user guide - problem and solution

[Patrick W. <jed...@pd...>]

Paul

As I know I and probably others will need this at some point, could you
maybe add it to a Wiki page on the community site so we can all remember
it later on?

Either way, thanks for the info
patrick

> Hi all,
>
> 	I ran into a problem compiling the user guided and
> couldn=92t find anything in the mailing list archives
> that helped solve the problem. Thought I=92d share the
> problem and solution if anyone else runs into it, and
> because this solution may need to be encorporated into
> the jedit build. Basically the problem was that when I
> try to compile the user-guide using the target
> docs-html-xalan on windows 2k with JRE 1.4.1.03 and
> Xalan 2.6.0 I get a number of fatal errors. The
> following are the problems I ran into, and the
> solutions I used.
>
> Perhaps I=92m a corner case if not, the build.xml file
> may need to be updated. I=92m happy to make the
> build.xml changes if one of the core developers thinks
> it is necessary.
>
> Problem 1:
> JRE 1.4 has included a version of xalan that either
> has a bug or conflicts with the existing version of
> xalan on my system. Basically, even if I put the xalan
> jars in my classpath before the JRE, the
> sun.boot.class.path causes java to still uses the
> xalan classes packaged with the JRE. The solution to
> this is to add a directory called endorsed under the
> jre lib directory. ( EXAMPLE:
> j2sdk1.4.1_03\jre\lib\endorsed ) and then copy the
> following jars from the xalan distribution into that
> directory. By having these jar files in the endorsed
> directory, java will use these libraries before those
> packaged with the JRE.
>
> Problem 2:
> On my machine, ant was getting confused by the
> build.xml for the user guide. Apparently the =93in=94
> attribute was not playing nicely with the =93destdir=94
> attribute. I had to make the following change in order
> for ant to play nice.
>
> OLD user-guide build.xml text
> <style in=3D" doc/users-guide/users-guide.xml"
> destdir=3D"doc/users-guide"
> style=3D"doc/jedithtml.xsl"/>
>
> NEW user-guide build.xml text
> <style
> basedir=3D"doc/users-guide"
> destdir=3D"doc/users-guide"
> style=3D"doc/jedithtml.xsl">
> <include name=3D"users-guide.xml"/>
> </style>
>
>
> Hope this helps someone in the future.
>
> Paul
>
>
>
>
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