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freecad: move docs to correct location #62442
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Move the help files to the location which the help viewer expects, otherwise attempting to access help from the menus gives an error.
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Well, putting the help files directly into root of the installation isn't very nice, as they will get symlinked into environments this way. Isn't there some easy way of overriding the path that is searched for help files?
While I agree in part, this is the pattern that FreeCAD follows (it's not really FHS compliant). These are the directories created in the current version:
The Another approach would be to have a subdirectory like |
Oh, the I should've written I can't really test it, as for me it won't start up at all, regardless of this PR:
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@vcunat Try |
FWIW I don't get that error using Intel graphics on Wayland. |
Hmm, OK, it was amdgpu for me as well. Intel skylake + X seems fine as it is. Perhaps we should use a wrapper to set this variable? Do you know about any down-sides? (I haven't read that forum thread properly, at least not yet.) |
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I see no reason to wait with this PR. We can improve later.
Motivation for this change
Move the help files to the location which the help viewer expects,
otherwise attempting to access help from the menus gives an error.
Things done
sandbox
innix.conf
on non-NixOS)nix-shell -p nix-review --run "nix-review wip"
./result/bin/
)nix path-info -S
before and after)