Re: [Boost-users] Problems trying to use boost book

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-07-09 13:58:57

Robert Ramey wrote:
> OK - I didn't expect anything to require a C++ compiler just
> to build documentation  I added using msvc : 7.1 and ran bjam --v2
> - as per instructions on
> http://www.boost.org/doc/html/boostbook/setup/running.html
>
> and things did crank way for quite a while and produced a lot
> of output on the console.  It ended with an encouraging messsage
> (which I have since scrolled off the top of the screen).  I run
> bjam --v2 again and it "finishes" pretty quickly with output
> which looks like:
>
> ...patience...
> ...found 1100 targets...
> ...updating 1 target...
> xslt-xsltproc-dir html\HTML.manifest
> warning: failed to load external entity
> "http://docbook.sourceforge.net/releas
> xsl/current/html/chunk.xsl"

That's the key message, it means one or both of the paths in the

using boostbook path1, path2 ;

declaration is wrong, double check your paths and hopefully you'll spot the 
error.

John.