David, fop is available via Homebrew for Mac. I don’t use Fink or MacPorts so can’t speak for them.
Perhaps that route will prove fruitful. Regards, Adrien > On Sep 14, 2018, at 6:49 AM, D via gnucash-devel <gnucash-devel@gnucash.org> > wrote: > > > > On September 14, 2018, at 1:59 AM, "Frank H. Ellenberger" > <frank.h.ellenber...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Am 14.09.18 um 03:55 schrieb David T. via gnucash-devel: >>> OK, so I thought it would be nice to look at the changes I am implementing >>> in the documentation in PDF format, since I am rather old school, and like >>> to see the changes in a print format. >>> >>> I went to the wiki, and followed the new directions there to try to compile >>> pdf documentation. >> which page? > > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Documentation_Update_Instructions#Prepare_The_Build_Directory > > >>> First, I ran ./autogen.sh, and aside from numerous warnings about a >>> non-POSIX variable name, everything went well. >>> >>> Next, I changed to build and ran ../configure, and buried in there is the >>> message: >>> >>> configure: WARNING: fop not found. You will not be able to generate PDF >>> files. >>> >>> Ah. The wiki didn’t mention anything about this; >> Such dependencies are usually in a specific README.dependencies or >> direct in the README[.md] file. >>> a search online indicates that fop refers to Apache FOP, and I followed >>> directions at http://www.working-software.com/node/18 >>> <http://www.working-software.com/node/18>; to copy the various jar files >>> into ~/Library/Java/Extensions >> Strange, I had only to install a package xmlgraphics-fop, but Macos >> might behave different. >> Result of 'which fop' returns a usable path like "/usr/bin/fop"?I > > That seems odd; the install page at Apache says it's a java app, and > installation consists of copying jar files. No mention of /usr/bin... > > Unfortunately, MacOS is different. Maybe John has advice for me... > >> Hope this helps a few steps further. >> Frank > > David > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
