Re: PSPP-BUG: Re: [bug #23138] Using Help -> Reference manual not possible

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 09:07:24AM +0200, unknown-1 wrote:
>      Although it won't solve this problem, I think Yelp should
>      be added to the dependency list so it is checked in
>      ./configure.
>      
>
> This can't be checked by configure, since configure can only inspect
> properties of the build environment.  It could possibly be checked by
> the make install target, but then it wouldn't know if yelp was
> installed/uninstalled at a later date.  In the end, the best option I
> believe is simply to let psppire popup an error message if it's not
> available when it needs it.
>
> But we can mention the requirement in the release notes.

I think that we should do that.  But I wonder whether it would be
useful to also check in configure whether yelp is available and,
if not, print a message such as:

        Cannot find the `yelp' program.  If `yelp' is not
        available at runtime, then PSPPIRE's online help will not
        be available.
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