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From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-10-13 00:27:47


Douglas Gregor wrote:

> > > I was finally ready to start bjam --v2 from /boost/doc, but the same
> > > error kept appearing about wrong xsl/dtd directories.
> > > I found out that changes to /new/user-config-jam don't work unless you
> > > erase the /boost/doc/catalog.xml file. A note about this would be nice
> > > in the install instructions.
> >
> > Or an "ALWAYS" modifier on catalog.xml.... Doug, wouldn't that be better?
>
> Yes, except that would mean that all of the documentation is always
> regenerated. I really want ALWAYS + NOCARE, so that it always does the
> action to build catalog.xml but doesn't take that dependency into
> consideration, but IIRC this combination didn't do as expected (although my
> memory is a bit fuzzy regarding exactly what happened when I tried).

Ah, I understand the problem now. I'll make a note about it and will try to do
something one day. For example, there are some ideas on the official jam
mailing list about use of MD5 checksums which could help.

- Volodya

 


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