Re: [Boost-users] QuickBook

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] QuickBook
From: Daniel James (dnljms_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-08-13 04:00:22

> 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?

Apparently, boost-cmake can (or perhaps could) build quickbook documentation:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.cmake/336

Other than that, it's complicated, there's a lot of parts to get
right. You can see what bjam's doing by running 'bjam -n'.

Daniel