KF5 Update Meeting Minutes 2014-w17

[Allen Winter]

On Wednesday, April 23, 2014 12:40:09 PM Luigi Toscano wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 of April 2014 20:11:28 Nicolás Alvarez wrote:
> > El martes, 22 de abril de 2014, Allen Winter <winter at kde.org> escribió:
> > > with Harald's help.  Stuck in docbook hell at the moment
> > > (kdoctools/xslt.cpp says it can't
> > > find the customizations). Anyway, just thought I'd mention this.
> > 
> > The same error happens on Windows. I have been commenting out
> > add_subdirectory(docs) here and there to get things to build.
> 
> So, this is an unresolved issue which depends on QStandardDirs.
> Here are few RR for Windows:
> https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/115210/
> https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/117011/
> 
> It seems that, in both cases (Windows and MacOSX) QStandardDirs needs to be 
> fixed to search also in some other "common" directories, or that the files are 
> not installed in the place QStandardDirs expects it. The pending question is: 
> which directory? I really need the help of domain experts here; I would really 
> avoid to have final KF5.0 with docs removed.
> 
In the meantime, perhaps we can use ecm_optional_add_subdirectory(docs)
so at least we don't need local modifications with add_subdirectory(docs) commented out
This is how things were done in KDE4.

I think then we just pass -DBUILD_DOCS=false to cmake  (not tested)