[Qt-interest] Where do the help files go?

Rohan McGovern rohan.mcgovern at nokia.com
Tue Oct 26 09:30:36 CEST 2010


Lorenzo Bettini said:
> On 10/21/2010 07:53 AM, Kai Koehne wrote:
> > On 10/20/2010 5:10 PM, ext Stephen Chu wrote:
> >   >  I am pulling Qt source from git and build it on the Mac for PPC
> >   >  binaries. I find that I am missing the help files in Creator. Does any
> >   >  one know where the help files go or are they being built at all?
> >   >
> >   >  Here's the configure line I use to build it:
> >   >
> >   >  ./configure -prefix '.' -opensource -confirm-license -debug-and-release
> >   >  -arch "x86 x86_64 ppc" -sdk /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk
> >   >  -no-qt3support -nomake demos -nomake examples
> >   >
> >   >  It's supposed to have everything built in the /qt dir. But I can't find
> >   >  any help files in it.
> >
> > I think you have to run "make docs" after compiling the libraries itself.
> >
> 
> 'make docs' is automatically executed by 'make install' isn't it?
> 

No; technically the needed procedure due to build system limitations
is:

 $ make install
 $ make docs
 $ make qmake    # regenerate docs-aware `install' rules 
 $ make install

(only when building from git - source packages already have docs.)
-- 
Rohan McGovern
QA Engineer
Qt Development Frameworks, Nokia



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