Docs Problem on Leopard

[David T.]

David--

Thanks for the lengthy reply. What you're describing is one hell of a mess, and
I guess I am glad that someone more skilled than I has inklings of what is
actually going on.

David

--- David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Yelp as available in fink at the moment does work with some of the  
> gnome documentation, but not all. There are some other pages that give  
> displays similar  to the gnucash docs. With no changes to the fink  
> gnucash2-docs package, when yelp 2.20 is used with the firefox 2  
> viewer (along with a host of newer gnome supporting libraries as  
> well), there is no problem browsing the docs normally.
> 
> That strongly suggests that the gnucash docs are not fundamentally a  
> problem.
> 
> The problem is likely to be a mismatch between the version of gtk+  
> available currently in fink and the version which yelp or yelp-viewer- 
> firefox expects. And apparently the mismatch isn't severe enough that  
> yelp can't run at all, but some documentation isn't parsed/displayed  
> properly. Since gnucash docs did work for me several months ago, I  
> think rolling back either yelp or yelp viewer might re-enable the  
> gnucash docs. But I keep hoping gnome 2.20 breaks out of jail soon  
> enough to make the roll back unnecessary. I don't think I could  
> convince all of fink to roll it back anyway -- so it would have to be  
> a custom packaging thing, which I'd really like to avoid.
> 
> The gnome 2.20 pieces probably won't be available from fink for  
> several more weeks. Several hundred packages have to be modified and  
> tested before they turn it loose. Gnucash works well, and finally  
> having a decent printer control dialog is certainly nice. The  
> modifications are mostly done, but Leopard threw several wrenches in  
> the works, and there is an intermittent problem with gconf that's  
> holding up the test phase.
> 
> Dave
> 
> On Jan 26, 2008, at 4:59 PM, David T. wrote:
> 
> > I am curious what you mean "Yelp from fink doesn't work...." I  
> > checked the fink
> > archives, and found a thread from November (I remember reading it  
> > then) talking
> > about Leopard compile problems surrounding Firefox, but that's not my
> > experience at this time. I was able to install, configure, and compile
> > gnucash2-docs and all its 35 dependencies (including firefox 2.0.11  
> > I think)
> > just fine. When I select the help menu items in Gnucash, Yelp fires  
> > right up,
> > but instead of the actual help, I get the unstyled document tree.  
> > That doesn't
> > sound like a yelp problem.
> >
> > Certainly, I can use the online version; I was just hoping to get  
> > everything
> > running nicely on its own.
> >
> > David
> >
> > --- David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On Jan 25, 2008, at 12:58 AM, David T. wrote:
> >>
> >>> Any ideas why the Gnucash Help files load in Yelp with the error
> >>> "This XML file
> >>> does not appear to have any style information associated with  
> >>> it...."?
> >>>
> >>> I am working with GC-2.2.3 installed yesterday via fink on 10.5.1
> >>> Leopard Intel
> >>> Mac, gnucash2-docs-2.2.0-2
> >>>
> >>> David
> >>
> >>
> >> Yelp from fink doesn't work properly at the moment. It will work when
> >> the Great Gnome Update (aka pangocairo-branch) goes public. It almost
> >> got out ahead of Leopard, but there are a couple surprises that
> >> Leopard added to the mix that have to get fixed. Gnucash works better
> >> in a newer gnome.
> >>
> >> In the meantime:
> >> http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.0/C/gnucash-help/help.html
> >> at this instant, though, the web site is unresponsive
> >> --
> >> David Reiser
> >> dbreiser at earthlink.net
> >>
> >>
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> --
> David Reiser
> dbreiser at earthlink.net
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