id summary reporter owner description type status milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc 2921 xinclude links incorrect troy d. straszheim Joel de Guzman "I'm trying to generate docs for proto manually. I'm on the trunk. Proto's 'proto.qbk' contains the line [xinclude reference.xml] which is in the same directory as proto.qbk itself: % ls -l /home/troy/Projects/boost/trunk/src/libs/proto/doc/proto.qbk -rw-r--r-- 1 troy troy 11250 Jan 24 06:54 /home/troy/Projects/boost/trunk/src/libs/proto/doc/proto.qbk % ls -l /home/troy/Projects/boost/trunk/src/libs/proto/doc/reference.xml -rw-r--r-- 1 troy troy 36374 Jan 24 06:54 /home/troy/Projects/boost/trunk/src/libs/proto/doc/reference.xml I cd to a build directory parallel to the source tree, and generate the xml with quickbook. I've hacked some couts into the xinclude action: % cd /home/troy/Projects/boost/trunk/build/libs/proto/doc && ../../../bin/quickbook --output-file=proto.xml /home/troy/Projects/boost/trunk/src/libs/proto/doc/proto.qbk Generating Output File: proto.xml infile=/home/troy/Projects/boost/trunk/src/libs/proto/doc/proto.qbk outdir=/home/troy/Projects/boost/trunk/build/libs/proto/doc/. returning path=../../../../../src/libs/proto/doc/reference.xml I doublecheck the path to reference.xml in the generated proto.xml: % grep reference.xml proto.xml And I check the path: % ls ../../../../../src ls: cannot access ../../../../../src: No such file or directory Wrong. There is one ../ too many: % ls ../../../../src BuildSlave.cmake Jamroot Welcome.txt boost/ boost.png doc/ libs/ project-config.jam tools/ CMakeLists.txt LICENSE_1_0.txt bin.v2/ boost-build.jam bootstrap.sh* index.htm more/ rst.css wiki/ INSTALL README.txt bjam* boost.css dist/ index.html people/ status/ workaround: use absolute paths " Bugs closed Boost 1.39.0 quickbook Boost 1.38.0 Problem fixed