Re: [Kicad-developers] Problem of kicad-source and kicad-doc Packaging Help Documents

2015-09-15 Thread Brian Sidebotham
I filed a bug report for the Windows version so people using RC1 may trip over the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1496049 Best Regards, Brian. On 15 September 2015 at 17:04, Brian Sidebotham wrote: > As a PS - I think RC2 looks like it's just round the corner because > not b

Re: [Kicad-developers] Problem of kicad-source and kicad-doc Packaging Help Documents

2015-09-15 Thread Brian Sidebotham
Actually the help documentation is broken on Windows too in the RC. The help is at C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\doc\kicad\help\en\kicad.pdf The searched paths are like this: Path C:\msys64\mingw64 C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\template\doc\help\en_GB C:\Program Files\KiCad\kicad.html C:\Pro

Re: [Kicad-developers] Problem of kicad-source and kicad-doc Packaging Help Documents

2015-09-15 Thread Brian Sidebotham
As a PS - I think RC2 looks like it's just round the corner because not being able to look the help documents is pretty poor. There's no links to the documentation in the start menu either so we'd have to point people to the install directory\share\doc\kicad... etc. Best Regards, Brian. On 15 S

Re: [Kicad-developers] Problem of kicad-source and kicad-doc Packaging Help Documents

2015-09-15 Thread Brian Sidebotham
On 15 September 2015 at 15:03, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > > > On 9/14/2015 1:08 AM, Joseph Chen wrote: >> On 09/13/2015 01:36 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >> The failure above is inevitable, because the running pcbnew is looking >> for file name "pcbnew.pdf", while the actual doc file name installed a

Re: [Kicad-developers] Problem of kicad-source and kicad-doc Packaging Help Documents

2015-09-15 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 9/14/2015 1:08 AM, Joseph Chen wrote: > On 09/13/2015 01:36 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >> The docs in lp:~kicad-developers/kicad/doc are obsolete. The latest >> docs are on github and are rebuilt whenever changes are made to the git >> repo and should be downloaded from there. >> >> It looks

Re: [Kicad-developers] Problem of kicad-source and kicad-doc Packaging Help Documents

2015-09-13 Thread Joseph Chen
On 09/13/2015 01:36 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: The docs in lp:~kicad-developers/kicad/doc are obsolete. The latest docs are on github and are rebuilt whenever changes are made to the git repo and should be downloaded from there. It looks like your original problem is that you either did not con

Re: [Kicad-developers] Problem of kicad-source and kicad-doc Packaging Help Documents

2015-09-13 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
The docs in lp:~kicad-developers/kicad/doc are obsolete. The latest docs are on github and are rebuilt whenever changes are made to the git repo and should be downloaded from there. It looks like your original problem is that you either did not configure CMake properly and/or didn't run sudo make

[Kicad-developers] Problem of kicad-source and kicad-doc Packaging Help Documents

2015-09-12 Thread Joseph Chen
Is this a known issue or just me? With running KiCAD on my linux, I have long noticed that the "help documents" are not accessible by the running "KiCAD". I recently found a work-around to make them work for me. The work-around is to create some symbolic links as shown here (if your email re