"The KDE-Documentation-Path isn't set correctly." + assorted whinings

[Sven Bergner]

On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, root wrote:

> i also get this problem and have jusy been living with it...
> aside from that i run suse-6 and had to update or install
> kdoc,sgmltool,autoconf i think the rest was okay, however i have the png
> libs installed but there never detected by the autoconf ? routines and
> allways have to traverse the makefiles adding -lpng at the apropreate
> point. Having said that i use ms visual c++ at work and to be honest
> dislike it mostly for things such as your in a file call up search option
> with control-h but having found the first instance of what your looking
> for its not possible to scroll you main view up and down the area unless 
> you first close the search tool. This behaviour is repeated in an
> inconsistant manor all through the product. 
> 
> kdevelop whilst generally following the look and feel does not seem to do
> such stupid things.
> 
> all in all kdevelop is becomeing a very usable tool, what i cant wait to
> see is what it will look like at version 6 hehe
> span.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Sandy Meier wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 10 Aug 1999 you wrote:
> > > 
> > > Then I ran kdevelop --setup and all went
> > > well (all the progies - sgml, kdoc etc. were identified). 
> > > I pointed the install program to the above dir where 
> > > asked for  "the new KDE libs source path".
> > > then I choose installation mode "leave current documentation
> > > untouched, and install to new documentation path".
> > > Then I specified "/opt/kde/share/apps/kdevelop/KDE-Documentation/" 
> > > as the new documentation path.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > bottom line : 
> > > (1) how can I fix it ?
> > 
> > Please look which messages are printed to the messagewindow while generating.
> > please use "options->kdevelop setup->documentation->update" and not the setup
> > to get this informations.
> > 
> > > (2) is this caused by the kdoc program ?
> > 
> > maybe, please try to generate the kdelibs documentation manualy.
> > 
> > > (3) why not put all the little programs KDevelop needs +
> > > KDevelop itself in one tarball ? It took me forever to gather
> > > all that stuff.
> > 
> > We thought that this isn't a problem, maybe we are wrong at this point.:-( For
> > instance "my" Linux distribution have ALL needed programs:
> > kdoc,ktranslator,enscript,glimpse,kdbg,sgmltools and so on.
> > 
> > Ciao!
> > 
> > Sandy
> > 
> 
> 
Hi Folks,
a simple workaround is to start the separated setup-tool the comes with
kdevelop. I had the same problem as descriped above and solved it this
way.
Hope this helps you too.

CU,
 Sven.
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                 Sven Bergner
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