That helped - I wasn't blowing away bin.v2 after changiing user-config.jam.
Now I'm down to :
$ bjam --v2
warning: Python location is not configured
warning: the Boost.Python library won't be built
Building Boost.Regex with the optional Unicode/ICU support disabled.
Please refer to the Boost.Regex documentation for more information
(and if you don't know what ICU is then you probably don't need it).
...patience...
...found 1100 targets...
...updating 2 targets...
xslt-xsltproc ..\bin.v2\doc\msvc-7.1\debug\boost.docbook
../bin.v2/doc/msvc-7.1/debug/catalog.xml:0: element rewriteURI: Catalog
error :
rewriteURI entry 'rewritePrefix' broken ?: file:///Program
Files/docbook/xsl/
set XML_CATALOG_FILES=..\bin.v2\doc\msvc-7.1\debug/catalog.xml
"xsltproc" --stringparam boost.libraries ../../libs/libraries.htm --path
..\bin
.v2\libs\foreach\doc\msvc-7.1\debug --path
..\bin.v2\libs\functional\hash\doc\ms
vc-7.1\debug --path ..\bin.v2\libs\math\doc\msvc-7.1\debug --path
..\bin.v2\libs
\static_assert\doc\msvc-7.1\debug --path
..\bin.v2\libs\tr1\doc\msvc-7.1\debug -
-path ..\bin.v2\libs\type_traits\doc\msvc-7.1\debug --path
..\bin.v2\libs\typeof
\doc\msvc-7.1\debug --path
..\bin.v2\libs\xpressive\doc\msvc-7.1\debug --path ..
\bin.v2\more\whos_using\msvc-7.1\debug --path
..\bin.v2\tools\jam\doc\msvc-7.1\d
ebug\link-static --path
..\bin.v2\tools\quickbook\doc\msvc-7.1\debug\link-static
--xinclude -o "..\bin.v2\doc\msvc-7.1\debug\boost.docbook"
"C:\BoostHead\tools\
boostbook\xsl\docbook.xsl" "src\boost.xml"
...failed xslt-xsltproc ..\bin.v2\doc\msvc-7.1\debug\boost.docbook...
...skipped <phtml>HTML.manifest for lack of
Robert Ramey wrote:
I've fiddled with the pathnames for a while with no success. I guess I'll have to delve deeper into how the whole thing is supposed to work. In the mean time, my original question remains unanswered.
"Its not altogether clear from reading the documentation whether things like DOCBOOK_XSL_DIR should be an exported environmental variable with the value set to the appropriate directory or if the actual directory name should be substitued where DOCBOOK_XSL_DIR appears in the example."
I've tried it both ways an no luck. The typefaces and code snippet in the manual seem to suggest the former - but a literal reading of the text suggests the latter.
I think the blog by Julio M. Merino Vidal is more enlightening than our own "official" docs: http://tinyurl.com/nc65b.
HTH.
Regards,