Boost C++ Libraries: Ticket #2232: Documentation build needs to detect missing prerequisites

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John Maddock — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:47:17 GMT

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Some random thoughts:

1) Aren't libxml2 and libxslt prerequisites for xsltproc anyway? So maybe a quick verification that xsltproc is present and working would be enough?

2) TaTex is just a Windows port/distribution of Tex/LaTex, we should check that LaTex is in the path. Checking for ghostscript is harder because the command line (ie name of the executable to check for) differs between Windows and Linux OS's :-(

3) Checks for Doxygen / Latex / Ghostscript should occur only when those tools are used: they're not necessary for those of us who use straight Quickbook/DocBook.

Cheers, John.

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Daniel James — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:11:35 GMT

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Latex and ghostscript aren't directly supported by boost build. They just get called by doxygen when the accumulators documentation is built. So at the moment, the check for those two should probably be in the accumulators jamfile. It would be nice if they were better integrated with boost build, but that isn't urgent.

A bit off topic: tetex is an obsolete unix distribution, but seems to be the best thing available for cygwin. There are several distributions. I'm currently using MikTeX on windows. But TeX Live looks quite promising, as it supports several platforms (including windows).

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Daniel James — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 11:32:45 GMT

milestone Boost 1.36.0 → Boost 1.39.0

John, is this fixed?

anonymous — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:05:40 GMT

Not really no, I've fixed up the accumulators Jamfiles so they check for latex etc, but I don't think we have meaningful checks (and error messages) for the tools that are configured in user-config.jam still?

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Daniel James — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:15:57 GMT

milestone Boost 1.39.0 → To Be Determined

Thanks, I mainly wanted to know for the release notes.

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Marshall Clow — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 15:31:51 GMT

owner set to Matias Capeletto
component None → Documentation

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Matias Capeletto — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 11:20:06 GMT

owner changed from Matias Capeletto to No-Maintainer

Daniel James — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 14:11:49 GMT

I still don't know how to do this in Boost.Build, but my documentation build script does check for executables before running the build. It's available at: https://github.com/danieljames/boost-build-docs