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Re: PSPP-BUG: Re: [bug #23138] Using Help -> Reference manual not possib
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Ben Pfaff |
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Re: PSPP-BUG: Re: [bug #23138] Using Help -> Reference manual not possible |
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Thu, 08 May 2008 09:50:09 -0700 |
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John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:
> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 09:07:24AM +0200, unknown-1 wrote:
> Although it won't solve this problem, I think Yelp should
> be added to the dependency list so it is checked in
> ./configure.
>
>
> This can't be checked by configure, since configure can only inspect
> properties of the build environment. It could possibly be checked by
> the make install target, but then it wouldn't know if yelp was
> installed/uninstalled at a later date. In the end, the best option I
> believe is simply to let psppire popup an error message if it's not
> available when it needs it.
>
> But we can mention the requirement in the release notes.
I think that we should do that. But I wonder whether it would be
useful to also check in configure whether yelp is available and,
if not, print a message such as:
Cannot find the `yelp' program. If `yelp' is not
available at runtime, then PSPPIRE's online help will not
be available.
--
"Now I have to go wash my mind out with soap."
--Derick Siddoway
- PSPP-BUG: [bug #23138] Using Help -> Reference manual not possible, Unknown-1, 2008/05/02
- PSPP-BUG: [bug #23138] Using Help -> Reference manual not possible, John Darrington, 2008/05/02
- PSPP-BUG: [bug #23138] Using Help -> Reference manual not possible, Unknown-1, 2008/05/03
- PSPP-BUG: [bug #23138] Using Help -> Reference manual not possible, Unknown-1, 2008/05/06
- PSPP-BUG: [bug #23138] Using Help -> Reference manual not possible, John Darrington, 2008/05/07
- PSPP-BUG: [bug #23138] Using Help -> Reference manual not possible, John Darrington, 2008/05/07
- PSPP-BUG: Re: [bug #23138] Using Help -> Reference manual not possible, unknown-1, 2008/05/08
- Re: PSPP-BUG: Re: [bug #23138] Using Help -> Reference manual not possible, John Darrington, 2008/05/08
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- Re: PSPP-BUG: Re: [bug #23138] Using Help -> Reference manual not possible, unknown-1, 2008/05/08
- Re: PSPP-BUG: Re: [bug #23138] Using Help -> Reference manual not possible,
Ben Pfaff <=
- Re: PSPP-BUG: Re: [bug #23138] Using Help -> Reference manual not possible, John Darrington, 2008/05/08
- Re: PSPP-BUG: Re: [bug #23138] Using Help -> Reference manual not possible, Ben Pfaff, 2008/05/08
- Re: PSPP-BUG: Re: [bug #23138] Using Help -> Reference manual not possible, John Darrington, 2008/05/09