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

Subject: Re: [Boost-docs] Running boost book from outside the boost directories
From: John Maddock (boost.regex_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-06-24 07:28:32

> 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?

Eh?  Just do it!  Assuming you have a Jamfile, just invoke bjam.  All it 
needs is BOOST_BUILD_PATH setting so that Boost.Build can find it's files.

Also take a look at how sandbox/tools/auto_index is set up, as this provides 
a simpl-ish example of what you want to do.

John.