On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 01:55, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >>>>> "Darren" == Darren Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Darren> What I suggest is that the lyx-devel repository come with > Darren> either a) an extension to the makefile which adds relative > Darren> symlinks as appropriate, or b) some symlinks to the current > Darren> lyxdoc contents. > > What about something simpler: have a variable LYX_DOCDIR_14x that can > point to the documentation files.
That's also pretty clever. But I opted for symlinks since that's what I've always done (in the absence of a new variable). > However, doing > cd .lyx/doc > ln -s <lyxdoc-dir>/*.lyx . Yeah that's the first thing I tried. But I saw all those other languages and thought "what if I didn't want English? LyX will still use English!" one big fat "D'oh!" > Darren> It asks for a list of language codes in order of preference, > Darren> then scans the lyxdoc dir for files matching those languages, > Darren> adding symlinks as appropriate. If the most preferred language > Darren> is missing a doc file, the next preferred is used, etc. Which > Darren> would be really nice to call from the makefile of the cvs > Darren> versions of LyX. Only problem is I have /bin/sh symlinked to > Darren> /bin/bash and I don't know if it's an entirely legal sh > Darren> script. > > The choice of language is already handled if you set LANG to something > reasonable. Why re-do it? see above "D'oh!" I was so interested in whether I could do it, I didn't check if I needed to ;) > Darren> If you assume that everyone wants English docs to be the > Darren> default then just adding symlinks to the repository would be > Darren> OK (assuming CVS handles symlinks, I know it's broken in lots > Darren> of ways). > > If LANG==fr, then fr_UserGuide will be automatically loaded by LyX > instead of UserGuide.lyx. OK, so just add a cp -s to the makefile? It should for the most part be safe to assume the docs are checked out next to the sources, or if really adventurous add a check for the docs in the configure script. > JMarc Darren PS: I tried ;)
