Re: [Boost-users] QuickBook

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] QuickBook
From: OvermindDL1 (overminddl1_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-08-13 03:12:45

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Daniel James <dnljms_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On 13 August 2010 06:40, OvermindDL1 <overminddl1_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> Attempting to use QuickBook to create both HTML and PDF documentation.
>>
>> First of all, compiled just about everything I can compile in boost,
>> including about all the tools, on Ubuntu.
>
> To use quickbook you need to install a few more things. There's some
> instructions in the quickbook documentation:
>
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_43_0/doc/html/quickbook/install.html#quickbook.install.linux

I did follow that, and everything is installed, I built quickbook as
root and 'installed' it into /usr/local/bin/, just as bjam and such
is.

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Daniel James <dnljms_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> And running bjam complains about not having found boost, which makes
>> sense since boost was build as a different user so its building
>> directory is inaccessible.
>
> If you use a prebuilt quickbook (you need to specify the location in
> your user-config.jam), you'll only need read access to the boost
> repository. If you set $BOOST_ROOT to its location, you should be
> okay. This is just to access boost build, the xsl stylesheets and dtd
> files.

Is there any way to remove the dependency on bjam?