Re: [boost] documentation doesn't build anymore

From: Doug Gregor (dgregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-24 11:09:12

On Jun 24, 2005, at 10:53 AM, Peter Simons wrote:

> One more thing about the documentation:
>
>>> | Writing any.html for chapter(any)
>
> Apparently the files
>
>   doc/html/any.html
>   doc/html/array.html
>   doc/html/boost_staticassert.html
>   doc/html/boost_typetraits.html
>   doc/html/boostbook.html
>   doc/html/function.html
>   doc/html/hash.html
>   doc/html/lambda.html
>   doc/html/ref.html
>   doc/html/signals.html
>   doc/html/threads.html
>   doc/html/variant.html
>   doc/html/who_s_using_boost_.html
>
> are checked into the CVS repository even though they are
> (re-)generated during the build process. IMHO, that's not a
> good idea because it invites "commit accidents" to happen.

Those files are there so that someone with a copy of Boost from CVS can 
read current documentation without having to generate it. They redirect 
out to MetaComm's BoostBook-generated docs.

        Doug