Re: [boost] Missing Documentation on Building and Installing Documentation.

Subject: Re: [boost] Missing Documentation on Building and Installing Documentation.
From: Stirling Westrup (swestrup_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-17 17:01:34

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Steven Watanabe <watanabesj_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> AMDG
>
> On 03/17/2011 01:15 PM, Stirling Westrup wrote:
>>
>> I'm currently working with boost 1.46 which I downloaded from the main
>> boost site and installed a few weeks ago, without a hitch. Just now I
>> went to check in /usr/local/share/doc for the boost documentation, and
>> discovered it wasn't installed when I asked bjam to install.
>>
>> So, how do I ask bjam to make the documentation, and to install it? I
>> would like to have a local copy as I'm not always going to have
>> internet access when working.
>
> The documentation should be pre-built.
> You can access it at libs/libraries.htm
> or libs/<library name>/index.html.
> Unfortunately, there's no way to install
> the documentation. It's set up to
> live in the source tree and moving
> would break a lot of links.
>

It should not be that impossible as several distributions, such as
Debian, place the documentation in /usr/share/doc and the links all
work. Besides, isn't the documentation generated by docbook or doxygen
or some similar system? If it is, it should be simple enough to
generate it for any desired target location.

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