cryptic bbv2 error building quickbook

[Eric Niebler]

Trying to build the accumulators documentation fails with a cryptic bbv2 error in quickbook's jamfile. It seems to happen whenever quickbook and doxygen are used together. I'm attaching the smallest repro I can find. Unzip into libs/scratch/doc and type bjam. In order to reproduce the error, your user-config.jam should *not* configure quickbook. Rather, allow bbv2 to attempt to auto-configure quickbook, which seems to cause the error (suggesting the problem is somewhere in quickbook.jam).

The actual error is:

error: Unable to find file or target named
error:     'object(file-target)@412'
error: referred from project at
error:     '/home/ericne/boost/org/trunk/tools/quickbook'

[Eric Niebler]

a header, a jamfile and a qbk file, tarred and zipped.

[anonymous]

xml scratch

:

scratch.qbk

: # scratchdoc isn't used during qbk -> xml transformation

# <dependency>scratchdoc

;

boostbook standalone

:

scratch

: # +

<dependency>scratchdoc

;

[Eric Niebler]

Can you tell me why adding a dependency, even where it may not be required, causes BBv2 to fall over?

[Vladimir Prus]

I can reproduce this.

[anonymous]

Replying to eric_niebler:

Can you tell me why adding a dependency, even where it may not be required, causes BBv2 to fall over?

Because <dependency> feature propagates too far - to 'exe quickbook' target

[Steven Watanabe]

This patch fixes the problem.

[Daryle Walker]

Ticket #1891 has been closed as a duplicate of this bug.

[Steven Watanabe]

(In [47737]) Only pass propagated properties when building the quickbook binary from the source. Fixes #1584