Re: [boost] Quickbook :/

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-07-10 13:38:44

Joel de Guzman wrote:
> Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
>> On 7/9/06, Philippe Vaucher <philippe.vaucher_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I've received many valuable advices on how to set quickbook however
>>> I still can't make it work.
>>> My platform is windows, I managed to have bjam build quickbook.exe,
>>> but from there I can't build any of the docs like in
>>> \boost\libs\type_traits\doc.
>>>
>>> For convenience's sakes I put quickbook in C:\WINNT so it's easier
>>> to read for you, but no matter which path I put bjam can't find
>>> quickbook
>>
>> I documented the procedure I followed here:
>>
>> http://julipedia.blogspot.com/2006/06/setting-up-boostbook-under-windows.html
>
> Ok, I just added Julio's Installation and configuration docs to
> the Quickbook documentation. Thanks Julio! There is now a detailed
> step by step "Installation and configuration" section. For now, we
> only have the section for Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista. Let's
> hope someone will contribute one for *nix and Mac.

One more juicy little tidbit that might be added to that information is
that the xslt processor doesn't like spaces in path names.  So, for
example,  you load DocBook directory as a sub directory in
"Program Files" - this will fail with a prettn non-obvious message.

Robert Ramey

>
> Regards,