Re: Remaining must-fix bugs for 4.4

[John W. Eaton]

On 04/27/2018 09:19 AM, Sebastian Schöps wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to recommend to fix the issue with the gui doc browser if
> Octave is compiled without docs, see
>
> http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Could-not-copy-help-collection-to-temporary-file-tt4687432.html
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53006#comment115

I checked in the following changeset

  http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/ebe32e8062ab

so that the Qt help files will be installed if they are available, even 
if Octave was configured with --disable-docs or if the tools to build 
those files were not available.  This should help for anyone who builds 
from a tarball distribution file because they will include the Qt help 
files already built and ready to install.  It won't help for anyone who 
builds from the hg sources.  But if you are doing that, then my position 
is still that you are a developer and you need to have the tools 
installed if you want things to work properly.

jwe