[Lazarus] IDE invocation of lhelp, probable endianness issue

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 08:59:26 +0000
Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk> wrote:

> On Linux running on either SPARC or PPC, trying to invoke 
> context-sensitive help (i.e. F1 key over a keyword) fails with a 
> dialogue e.g. "Unknown error showing 
> /forms/tapplication/initialize.html". There's no error addresses etc. on 
> the console, the exception doesn't break the IDE.

Sounds like a bug in lhelp. Can you start lhelp standalone and check?

 
> I don't see this on x86 or ARM (Linux, not testing Windows). Seeing it 
> on PPC but not ARM suggests that it's an endianness rather than 
> alignment issue. I'm not yet able to test on SPARC Solaris due to the 
> slowness of fpdoc on that combination.

The chm files are the same on all platforms.

Mattias