[Lazarus] RC1 from svn, and lhelp

[Mattias Gaertner]

Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk> hat am 16. August 2012 um
12:03 geschrieben:> I'm trying to build and minimally-exercise RC1 for various
platforms, I
> might be some time. Below are observations that apply to multiple targets.
>
> I notice that when IDE startup changes the Lazarus directory etc., that
> it leaves the path to the lhelp binary unchanged. So after changing a
> system from lazarus-trunk to lazarus-1.0-rc1, the options still refer to
> the lhelp binary in the lazarus-trunk tree. I presume that this is
> fixable by putting a macro in the path.

In RC1 the lhelp path uses by default macros.


> I notice that you can't build the documentation using e.g. make chmdocs
> as part of the same operation as the rest of the IDE, since it assumes
> that the path to the lazarus directory has already been corrected. The
> correct sequence is to get the sources via svn, make bigide, run IDE to
> correct paths and then make chmdocs.
>
> When lhelp comes up in response to F1 on a keyword, the left pane only
> shows the database relevant to that keyword. While other databases can
> be opened successfully, showing the names of all available databases as
> soon as lhelp comes up would make it look more complete.

Patches are welcome.

> While the LCL/IDE help is building, there are many messages of the form
>
> Warning: Target ID of <link> is unknown: "#rtl.Classes.TStrings"
> Warning: Target ID of <link> is unknown: "#rtl.Classes.TStrings.Text"
>
> Do these represent a permanent problem which should be reported as an
> error, or will the links be automatically resolved once the RTL database
> is available?

Have you built the fpdocs?

Mattias
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