Erich, Is the issue with the first stage of the processing or the the PDF generation? We might want to try converting the build to the the Apache FOP processor, which does appear to be more active than the old version we've been using.
Rick On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 12:35 PM Erich Steinböck <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not really that comfortable with relying on an old version of tools >> that don't really have any support any more >> > The issue has become even more serious since switching over to Windows 10. > All ooRexx docs still build (with slightly less appealing fonts) except > for rexxref. Tested on two Win 10 machines, any rexxref build fails with a > c0000005 exception about 99% of the time, but eventually successfully > builds in 1 out of a 100 tries. A real pain. > > Although publican is an exe we still might be able to figure out where the > crash occurs (and maybe fix it), because publican.exe really is a > PAR-packed ZIP file of (Strawberry) Perl scripts and native libraries. The > scripts can be extracted with a simple unzip and it might be possible to > run them in Perl debug mode, figure out where it breaks and replace the > culprit with a newer version (or bring all stuff to the latest Perl > version). > > I tried a bunch of things but with no success yet. > > On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 1:56 PM Rick McGuire <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> There was a long discussion on how to get this set up that took place on >> this list back in January of this year. The net of this discussion was that >> while it was possible to build the docs on linux, the results were not as >> good as the version built on Windows. Getting a working setup on Windows >> required a good bit of manual tweaking and installing very specific >> versions of publican. I believe Erich made a snapshot of his build tools >> available for download on Sourceforge. >> >> I don't know if anybody has every tried pandoc. I would be nice if it did >> work, since I'm not really that comfortable with relying on an old version >> of tools that don't really have any support any more. >> >> Rick >> >> On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 8:22 AM Rony G. Flatscher < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Following the communication in the past it seems that currently a >>> special publican setup on Windows >>> is necessary. Is there any "cheat-sheet"/"todo-list" documentation >>> available on the Internet (did >>> not find anything on the ooRexx wiki < >>> https://sourceforge.net/p/oorexx/wiki/Home/>)? >>> >>> Would publican (https://pkgs.org/download/publican) for Linux be able >>> to process the ooRexx >>> documentation? If not, would anyone know of the reason(s)? >>> >>> --- >>> >>> Has anyone ever tried to process the ooRexx documentation with "pandoc" ( >>> https://pandoc.org/), which >>> would be available for all major platforms for free? >>> >>> ---rony >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Oorexx-devel mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Oorexx-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel >> > _______________________________________________ > Oorexx-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel >
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