Re: [Boost-docs] Doc build failure on release branch

Subject: Re: [Boost-docs] Doc build failure on release branch
From: Daniel James (daniel_james_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-10-08 18:46:20

2008/10/8 Daniel James <daniel_james_at_[hidden]>:
>
> That's caused by this bug, which has been around for a while:
>
> http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/2155
>
> A quick fix might be to change the subversion properties for all
> quickbook files so that they always use unix newlines. But it'd be
> better to fix quickbook, especially as this might be a spirit bug.
> I'll have a look at this tonight, but I can't promise much since I
> know very little about spirit.

I've looked into it, and boost::spirit::position_iterator's handling
of newlines is pretty screwy but this probably isn't an appropriate
time or place to fix it so I think the best solution for now is to
convert the newlines before parsing. I've attached a largely untested
patch to do that, I'll try building the documentation with it and
commit it later. Of course, it hides deeper problems, so I'll try to
make a stab at dealing with them later.

Daniel