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Bug 161404 - looking for help documentation in wrong place ?
looking for help documentation in wrong place ?
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: Gnumeric
Classification: Applications
Component: Documentation
1.4.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Kevin Breit
Kevin Breit
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-12-15 19:39 UTC by Caolan McNamara
Modified: 2005-01-16 22:15 UTC
See Also:
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Description Caolan McNamara 2004-12-15 19:39:05 UTC 
/xmldocs.make and consequently /doc/C/Makefile 
contain
docdir = $(datadir)/gnome/help/$(docname)/$(lang)
i.e /usr/share/gnome/help/gnumeric/C
so the help documentation by default ends up there
while 
src/wbcg-actions.c
calls yelp on gnm_sys_data_dir ("doc/C/gnumeric.xml");
which expands to
/usr/share/gnumeric/1.4.1/doc/C
Comment 1 Randy McMurchy 2004-12-22 19:57:06 UTC 
I confirmed this bug exists. Help will not pull up correctly from the
help menu in Gnumeric. I created a symlink from

$GNOME_PREFIX/share/gnumeric/1.4.1/doc -> $GNOME_PREFIX/share/gnome/help/gnumeric

and yelp finds the help file just fine. This is not meant as a fix, but simply
to confirm what Caolan has mentioned in the original report.
Comment 2 Jody Goldberg 2005-01-16 22:15:14 UTC 
youch, thanks for spotting this.
I've patched the xmldoc.make to agree with the code.