Re: [Boost-docs] [1.35.0] Getting Started?

Subject: Re: [Boost-docs] [1.35.0] Getting Started?
From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-01-25 02:55:05

John Maddock wrote:
> Beman Dawes wrote:
>> I trying to build docs for 1.35.0 from branches/release. I've followed
>> the procedure in
>> http://www.boost.org/regression-logs/cs-win32_metacomm/doc/html/boostbook/getting/started.html
>> up to the point where it says:
>>
>> "At this point, you should be able to build HTML documentation for
>> libraries that do not require Doxygen. To test this, change into the
>> directory $BOOST_ROOT/libs/function/doc and run the command bjam --v2:
>> it should produce HTML documentation for the Boost.Function library in
>> the html subdirectory."
>>
>> I do that and get the error message below.
>>
>> My user-config.jam file looks like this:
>>
>> using msvc : 8.0 ;
>> using msvc : 7.1 ;
>> using gcc ;
>> using intel-win : 10.0 ;
>> import toolset : using ;
>> using python ;
>> using xsltproc ;
>>
>> #  BoostBook configuration
>> using boostbook
>>   : c:/apps/docbook_xsl
>>   : c:/apps/docbook_dtd
>>   ;
>> using doxygen ;
>>
>> Any ideas what's wrong? Where is reference.xsl supposed to come from?
> 
> Beman, this works for me in both the Trunk and release branches.  However, I 
> have seen this before: it was due to bbv2 incorrectly quoting some command 
> line arguments (putting an argument in ""two sets of quotes""), can you run 
> with -d2 so we can see the command lines?
> 
> Also make sure that you are using the latest Win32 xsltproc from 
> http://www.zlatkovic.com/libxml.en.html rather than the one on the metacomm 
> site which is out of date now :-(

Thanks, John!

I worked around the problem by running everything on my Linux box. I'm 
traveling, so can't try your workaround right away, but will give it a 
shot next week when I'm back home.

--Beman