>> If these *.help files are in some way necessary for fricas to run >> properly, then why aren't they made by default from an svn >> checkout?
> *.help are a textual version of (some of) Hyperdoc pages. They are > shown by )help command -- if you do not have them )help shows > nothing. Aha! I've never used )help till now. ;-) > ATM the process of creating help files is not automated -- few files > in the distribution tarball are taken from NAG cdrom, the rest was > created by Tim Daly. Anybody can give a hint how the could/should be generated from the SVN sources. If it's not too hard, I'll add a patch. Or can we perhaps just include those .help files and the necessary installation code into the FriCAS archive until we have some code that generates them? Opinions? > The real question is how usefull *.help files are. Given working > HyperDoc I personally found no use of them. But sometimes (like on > "native" Windows) we do not have HyperDoc, then help may be more > useful. Also, preferences vary -- so I decided to ship help file in > distribution tarball. Right, but I'd like to be able to generate them for the poor Windows-Users. I just need a hint how this can be done. >> Actually the same question arises for the ghpts target. Cannot >> configure check whether an X server is running and thus switch >> on/off the gphts generation in src/paste? > Ralf, have you looked at working 'make gphts'? Oh, yes. Just last night where I compiled not on my local machine. ... The process was terribly slow. :-( > Normal 'make' can run in the background while user is doing something > else. But 'make gphts' pops images on the screen effectively not > allowing doing any other work. In other words, given current state > of 'make gphts' I do not _want_ it to run by default. I understand and agree. >> How do I have to call the *top-leve* make to generate the gpths >> files? I think that calling >> >> make cd src/paste make gphts cd ../.. make >> >> is unsatisfactory. > We can put equivalent rule in top-level Makfile.in if that makes a > difference. Yes, that would make me more happy. Actually the make process should end with an echo that tells the user how to generate the missing gphts (and that this will require X and constantly popup and remove graphics windows). Ralf --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
