[pkg-boost-devel] boostbook, quickbook and boost inspect tool

[Bernhard Reiter]

FYI: 
On 2008-08-25, I added the following to
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/239670

> The attached (quite straightforward) patch (against the debian subdir
> of the source package) adds the boostbook, quickbook, inspect and
> regression tools to libboost1.35-dev, as this is also the package the
> bcp tool is already part of. Note that boostbook has a couple of
> runtime dependencies (->Recommends) and Suggestions added to the
> control file.
> 
> Also note that in order to work with a Boost Build system, you'd need
> to configure your user-config.jam. This is not done by the package,
> and has not been done for any other tool up to now, but it might be
> worth considering for future updates.
> 
> Finally, note that no further documentation has to be installed, as
> it's already present in libboost1.35-doc.

The patch's at

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/17052573/tools.patch

Comments?

Regards,
Bernhard Reiter

On Fre, 2008-08-15 at 12:15 +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a Ubuntu user and I've noticed that neither Ubuntu nor Debian
> contain packages of the very useful three boost tools mentioned in the
> subject.
> 
> For Ubuntu, I've posted bugreports tagged for Debian at 
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/boost1.35/+bug/239670
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/boost1.35/+bug/258121
> 
> (First for quickbook and boostbook, as I wasn't sure if one
> "libboost-doc-dev" or so package or two separate ones would be a good
> idea; second for inspect)
> All three tools are part of the boost1.35 (or boost, optionally) source
> package.
> 
> Boostbook is essentially just a set of XSL files; docs on setup are at
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_36_0/doc/html/boostbook/getting/started.html
> 
> Quickbook needs to be built using the boost build system, as described
> at
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_36_0/tools/quickbook/doc/html/quickbook/install/linux.html
> 
> The boost inspect tool docs are at
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_36_0/tools/inspect/index.html
> 
> Unfortunately, I'm a complete packaging newbie and the boost1.35 source
> package seems a bit complex for a start; anyway, under some guidance,
> I'd be glad to help out where I can.
> 
> (I have in the past tried to roll out a Gentoo ebuild for boost 1.33
> that provides build options for boostbook and quickbook, which might
> give some hint about what is needed, but as it wasn't ever accepted into
> Gentoo, I don't know if it's clean enough.
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=92996
> They did, however, add a 'tools' useflag in later versions which would
> just build everything in the tools directory.
> http://www.gentoo-portage.com/dev-libs/boost )
> 
> Kind Regards
> Bernhard Reiter
> (When replying, please cc me as I'm not subscribed to this list!)