Re: [Boost-users] [units] Problem building HTML documentation from QuickBook sources

From: Torsten Mähne (Torsten.Maehne_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-12-07 06:48:17

John Maddock wrote:
> Torsten Mähne wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm very interested in the Boost.Units library. I've been therefore
>> trying to use the version, which is available from the Boost Sandbox
>> SVN
>> repository (Revision 41778):
>>
>> svn co http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/units boost_units
>>
>> I've no problems using the header-only Boost.Units library in my own
>> small test programs, but I'm struggling to build the reference
>> documentation located in libs/units/doc/. Therefore, I'm currently
>> forced to use the outdated HTML documentation from the
>> mcs_units_v0.7.2.zip archive available from the Boost file vault or
>> read
>> directly the units.qbk source.
> 
> It's a command line quoting problem that's fixed by the following BBv2 
> patch:
> 
> Index: tools/build/v2/tools/doxygen.jam
> ===================================================================
> --- tools/build/v2/tools/doxygen.jam    (revision 41793)
> +++ tools/build/v2/tools/doxygen.jam    (working copy)
> @@ -299,7 +299,7 @@
>      }
>      for local title in [ feature.get-values <reftitle> : $(properties) ]
>      {
> -        xslt-properties += "<xsl:param>boost.doxygen.reftitle=\"$(title)\"" 
> ;
> +        xslt-properties += "<xsl:param>boost.doxygen.reftitle=$(title)" ;
>      }
> 
>      xsltproc.xslt $(target) : $(source) $(d2b-xsl) : $(xslt-properties) ;
> 
> HTH, John. 

Thank you very much John! This small patch solved the problem and now
I'm able to build the HTML and PDF documentation for Boost.Units myself.
I hope this patch finds its way into the Boost SVN repository soon.

Best regards,

Torsten