Re: Could not copy help collection to temporary file

[Sebastian Schöps]

Mike Miller-4 wrote
> On Sat, Apr 07, 2018 at 09:07:57 -0700, Sebastian Schöps wrote:
>> I may have found the issue: I disable the documentation with
>> "--without-docs"; make will still build the online help for octave-cli
>> which
>> is enough for me. Does the GUI-help require to build the documentation?
>> If
>> yes, is that actually necessary?
> 
> Yes, building the docs is required to build and install the
> documentation for the GUI.
> 
> My hope is that no one needs to build with '--disable-docs', but that's
> probably not true for this release.

What about this: if build with disabled docs, then we create a dummy
"octave_interpreter.qhc" which contains only the string "build without
docs". This would hopefully avoid the annoying error messages of octave
every time the gui is started.

Sebastian



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