Re: Remaining must-fix bugs for 4.4

[Sebastian Schöps]

John W. Eaton wrote
> 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.

Thanks! I can confirm that your changeset fixes the problem for the 4.4
release.

Seb.



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