Installing documentation

Glenn Johnson glennpj at charter.net
Mon Feb 17 19:14:00 CST 2003


On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 07:03:48PM -0600, Glenn Johnson wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 07:22:33PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
>
>
> > Ahh..  I guess that in the future the FreeBSD Ports of gnucash-docs
> > will properly set the datadir similarly.  Either that or the
> > gnucash-docs package should someone figure out where to install
> > itself based upon the installed gnucash.  Some way to query gnucash
> > for its GNC_HELPDIR might be an interesting way to go.
>
> Well, it would seem to make sense to change GnuCash to have
> GNC_HELPDIR point to ${PREFIX}/share/gnome/help/gnucash.
>
> According to the README for gnucash-docs, I should be able to see the
> documentation in yelp because I have GNOME 2.  I still do not see the
> gnucash documentation in yelp.  Maybe I do not understand things fully
> (well, I know I do not) but would I need an omf file for that to work?

Replying to my own message.

I just noticed that gnucash-docs installs the omf files in
/usr/X11R6/share/omf/gnucash-docs.  Everything else on the system is
installed in /usr/X11R6/share/gnome/omf/...

*sigh* I should be able to fix this easily enough.

-- 
Glenn Johnson
glennpj at charter.net


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