[GNC] Problems upgrading to 4.8a

[john]

> On Sep 5, 2022, at 2:01 PM, Frank H. Ellenberger <frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Am 05.09.22 um 22:27 schrieb Geert Janssens:
>> Op maandag 5 september 2022 19:09:06 CEST schreef john:
>>> This is https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798612
>>> 
>>> I discovered while researching this that yelp v.42 just dropped support for
>>> the ghelp: scheme. help:gnucash-help and help:gnucash-guide are able to
>>> find the GnuCash docs
>> I'm surprised the help: scheme finds the documentation in the old ghelp locations,
>> but that's good news really.
>> I think we best add this in for gnucash 4.12 then, and conditional on the yelp
>> version.
> 
> Why conditional, IIRC help: is defined in yelp for about a decade.


Because yelp v3.x (and maybe v40 and v41, I didn't have those handy to test) can't find the GnuCash docs in /usr/share/docs/gnucash-docs with help: so we have to use ghelp: on distros that are still shipping older versions of yelp.

Regards,
John Ralls