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From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-13 01:59:13


On Thursday 13 April 2006 02:43, Eric Niebler wrote:
> Rene Rivera wrote:
> > Eric Niebler wrote:
> >> Vladimir Prus wrote:
> >>> Hmm... we still need some way to include jam docs into Boost.Build
> >>> standalone docs...
> >>>
> >>> Anybody knows any way to do conditional xi:include, so that I can set
> >>> some parameter when building standlone Boost.Build docs? If no, I'll
> >>> modify Boost.Build nightly build script to patch docs to add include
> >>> of jam docs.
> >>
> >> Could you tell me what you're trying to do? You want the Jam docs
> >> within the BBv2 docs? And you still want to be able to build the Jam
> >> docs separately? Or is it something else? I'm confused.
> >
> > Volodya is trying to include the bjam docs as an appendix to the
> > boost.build docs, but only when the build docs are built stand alone.
> > That is he wants the stand alone distribution of build to also contain
> > the docs for jam.
>
> OK, thanks. I've fixed the problem. The standalone boost.build docs are
> now built from standalone.xml, which is a copy of the old userman.xml.
> Userman.xml, which is referenced by $boost_root/doc/src/boost.xml, no
> longer contains a reference to the Jam docs.
>
> It may not be elegant, but it's simple and it works.

Thank you, this solution is fine with me.

- Volodya

-- 
Vladimir Prus
http://vladimir_prus.blogspot.com
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