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From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-23 14:52:15


Daniel James wrote:

> 2008/7/23 Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]>:
>>
>> error: Unable to find file or target named
>> error: 'object(file-target)@3310'
>> error: referred from project at
>> error: '/D:/boost/release/tools/quickbook'
>>
>> I don't know anything about quickbook, so help is needed to debug this
>> failure.
>
> This appears to be a problem with boost build. It should build
> quickbook automatically if you haven't specified the location of a
> prebuilt executable. But something is going wrong. I don't think the
> quickbook build tool has been changed, so the problem might be
> somewhere else in boost build.
>
> As a workaround, you can first build quickbook separately. You can do
> this by going to '$BOOST_ROOT/tools/quickbook', running 'bjam
> dist-bin', and adding to your user-config.jam:
>
> using quickbook : $BOOST_ROOT/dist/bin/quickbook ;

I can look into Steven's patch, but only tomorrow. The above workaround can
be used if having this working during the reminder of today is desirable.
(Reminder of today is 1 hour here, but is up to 13 hours in US).

- Volodya


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