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

Subject: Re: [boost] Missing Documentation on Building and Installing Documentation.
From: John Bytheway (jbytheway+boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-23 14:40:24

On 23/03/11 15:43, Steven Watanabe wrote:
> AMDG
> 
> On 03/23/2011 03:12 AM, Vladimir Prus wrote:
>> Stirling Westrup wrote:
>>> 2) Create some preliminary bjam methods to relocate the Boost
>>> documentation to standard install directories for those OSes that have
>>> them.
>> It's the first time I hear that documentation refers to headers in a way
>> that breaks when documentation is moved. That seems kinda strange
>> approach.
> 
> I assume that whoever wrote that part of BoostBook
> figured that, since the headers were there, we might
> as well link to them from the reference section...
> Of course, if the html is moved, the relative path
> to the headers is different.

FWIW, on my various systems with Boost installed via package managers
putting docs in /usr/share/doc I'm used to those links not working.  I
still click them occasionally by accident, but it's not a big deal.

John Bytheway