[Interest] Problem building docs in dev branch and out-of-source build

[Guido Seifert]

Thank you. Worked like a charm.

Happy New Year just got a bit happier. :-)

Happy New Year to you, too.

Guido

> Hi,
> 
> On 01/01/2015 18:16, Guido Seifert wrote:
> > Hiya,
> > for the new year I gave me a new Qt5. :-)
> >
> > It is the dev branch. And for the first time I tried an out-of-source build for Qt5.
> > No problem for qt itself, but something is very wrong with the docs.
> >
> > I did the usual
> > 'make docs' and 'make install_docs' and for out-of-source:
> > make install_global_docs
> >
> > So far so good. Plenty of qch files are installed. However, they are all useless.
> > In Assistant all pages give me:
> >> The page could not be found!
> >> Error loading: qthelp://org.qt-project.qtprintsupport.550/qtprintsupport/qtprintsupport/qtprintsupport-index.html
> >> Please make sure that you have all documentation sets installed.
> > It looks like all indices are missing. Strangely the also created html documents seem to be complete and working.
> >
> > Any ideas what could cause this problem? I suppose it has something to do with the out-of-source build.
> 
> Yup. I hit this when starting to work on docs for Qt3D. See my findings in
> 
> https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-41705?focusedCommentId=268882&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-268882
> 
> In summary, the urls in the qhp files are getting a superfluous 
> directory name added to them. As a temporary work around, comment out 
> the line
> 
> outSubDir_ = Generator::outputSubdir();
> 
> in the ctor of node.cpp in qtbase/src/tools/qdoc/ to get correctly 
> generated qhp and then qch files.
> 
> I'm waiting for feedback from Martin as to the correct fix.
> 
> Happy New Year!
> 
> Sean
> 
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