Re: [Boost-docs] Running boost book from outside the boost directories

Subject: Re: [Boost-docs] Running boost book from outside the boost directories
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-06-24 02:19:54

AMDG

On 06/23/2011 08:04 PM, Robert Ramey wrote:
> I'm working on a project where I want to use quickbook/boost/book outside of 
> the boost directory tree.
> 
>>From the documentaion:
> 
> Once BoostBook has been configured, we can build some documentation. First, 
> change to the directory $BOOST_ROOT/doc and remove (or make writable) the 
> .html files in $BOOST_ROOT/doc/html. Then, run bjam to build HTML 
> documentation. You should see several warnings like these while DocBook 
> documentation is being built from BoostBook documentation:
> 
> Which begs the question of how one can do this for anything that is not 
> inserted to the boostbuild tree.  How do I go about building documentation 
> with boost tools for a project which is not inside the boost tree?
> 

Run bjam in the directory containing the Jamfile.
There's nothing special about $BOOST_ROOT/doc.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe