Re: [Boost-build] Documentation build error on trunk

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Documentation build error on trunk
From: Jurko Gospodnetić (jurko.gospodnetic_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-08-14 09:36:22

   Hi.

> I fixed some some syntax errors, added a missing import and fixed the
> name of BoostBook (it isn't called Boost.Book, it's following
> DocBook).

   Great! Thanks!

   As for the 'Boost.Book' naming - that was inherited from the original 
code base. :-)

> I haven't done an actual build yet.
>
> Running 'b2 -n' I got lot of odd errors. I don't think they're related
> to doxygen. They might not even be new as they don't make the build
> fail. I'll look into it this evening. Here's a few of them:
>
> don't know how to make
> <p../bin.v2/libs/asio/doc/darwin-4.2/debug-object(xinclude-scanner)@6604>asio_doc.xml
> don't know how to make

   Unfortunately, I do not really know where these come from. I tried 
running the build from the trunk using msvc (i.e. no documentation 
build) and I get no such messages with or without the '-n' option.

   You can try running the same build on the last release archive but 
using the --boost-build=... option to use Boost Build from the trunk.

   You can also try running the same '-n' command directly on the last 
release archive using Boost Build from there to see whether these 
messages were present there also.

   Hmm, just a thought - they could possibly be related to targets that 
need to be generated first for some other targets to 'start making 
sense', and since you are running the build with the '-n' option - the 
original targets do not get built, causing Boost Build to 'not know how 
to build' the targets in the second group. If this is so then they 
should not appear in a regualr build.

   Hope this helps.

   Best regards,
     Jurko Gospodnetić