[mapserver-dev] generation of trunk documentation failed on mapserver.org

[Howard Butler]

On Jan 13, 2010, at 2:42 AM, Lars Lingner wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> yesterday Alan Boudreault and I wanted to test the new 404 handler. But
> we had some trouble getting sphinx running.
> 
> The error message when doing "make html" is
> 
> Could not import extension rst2pdf.pdfbuilder (exception: cannot import
> name _Container)
> 
> It looks like one/some dependencies are missing. I tried a installation
> on a virtual machine, but with a recent version of Fedora. These are the
> steps to get it running:
> 
> yum install python-setuptools-devel
> yum install python-reportlab
> yum install rst2pdf
> yum install python-imaging (for support other than jpg)
> easy_install -U Sphinx
> 
> 
> After that i could run "make html" on a fresh checkout of trunk/docs
> without errors.
> 
> But as I said that is a recent version of Fedora (12)
> 
> 
> Maybe this helps anyone to fix the current setup on mapserver.org

That's my fault for introducing the rst2pdf building stuff in conf.py in http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/changeset/9642  I was attempting to try to get the alternative PDF builder working locally, but I haven't had much success with it yet.

I have backed it out, and things hopefully should work now.  Please let me know.

Howard