Re: [Boost-build] PDF documentation build broken in Trunk

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] PDF documentation build broken in Trunk
From: Daniel James (daniel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-05-09 06:19:53

On 9 May 2013 11:03, John Maddock <john_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> I guess someone must have changed something because the PDF doc builds are
> broken in Trunk, the issue is that images need to be found via an absolute
> path, so I have:
>
> path-constant images_location : html ;
>
> Then add:
>
> <format>pdf:<xsl:param>img.src.path=$(images_location)/
>
> as a build requirement.
>
> Unfortunately the trailing / on the path is getting stripped off by
> Boost.Build which then breaks all the links :-(

I had the same problem here:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.build/25721/

I worked round it for doxygen2boostbook, but it would be better to fix
it in boost build.