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

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-07-09 15:19:39

I've fiddled with the pathnames for a while with no success.  I guess
I'll have to delve deeper into how the whole thing is supposed to
work.  In the mean time, my original question remains unanswered.

"Its not altogether clear from reading the documentation whether things like
DOCBOOK_XSL_DIR should be an exported environmental variable
with the value set to the appropriate directory or if the actual directory
name should be substitued where DOCBOOK_XSL_DIR appears in
the example."

 I've tried it both ways an no luck.  The typefaces and code
snippet in the manual seem to suggest the former - but a literal reading
of the text suggests the latter.

Robert Ramey

John Maddock wrote:
> 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.