This is a feature request. In addition to the libraries, the Boost distribution is shipped with a handful of tools; see http://boost.org/tools/ for descriptions. The Boost ebuild has USE flags for two of them (bjam and bcp), but not for the others. In particular, the ebuild is missing USE flags for BoostBook and QuickBook, two C++ documentation tools. I'm requesting that USE flags for these tools be added to the Boost ebuild.
Created attachment 92996 [details] boost-1.33.1.ebuild This is a very preliminary effort to implement those two USE flags I've been using locally for a while. Not that its pretty raw as * it uses hard-wired version numbers for required packages, * doesn't take account of multiple compilers installed and * puts stuff probably not to the right locations (especially boostbook-docbook stuff that might actually belong into /usr/share/sgml/ocbook for conformity, but I don't know if boost.build can still reach it easily there) plus * apparently omits some documentation. That said, it worked kinda nicely with my gcc 3.4.6, but I've stopped working on it at a very early stage as I'm in need of the CVS version now and I won't bother with an ebuild for that one...
It is possible to enable the build of those tools with the "tools" USE-flag in boost-1.34.0.
