[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #40284] Octave Release Notes pane's text source refers to build dir, not install dir

[Philip Nienhuis]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?40284>

                 Summary: Octave Release Notes pane's text source refers to
build dir, not install dir
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: philipnienhuis
            Submitted on: Wed 16 Oct 2013 11:32:37 PM CEST
                Category: GUI
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Incorrect Result
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Philip Nienhuis
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: dev
        Operating System: Any

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Details:

( Already reported in passing here:
https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2013-October/036755.html
)

On Windows, running an MXE-built Octave-3.7.7+, and clicking the main manu bar
News -> Release Notes, I get an empty Octave Release Notes pane and in the
terminal I see:


>> QTextBrowser: No document for file:///home/philip/devel/octdev/mxe-octave/
usr/i686-pc-mingw32/share/octave/3.7.7+/etc/NEWS


I tried to track down where NEWS is kept; but in MXE builds for Windows
there's no doc subdir as the docs simply aren't built (at least not on my MXE
system) - perhaps Anirudha has fixed that as well but AFAIK his fixes still
have to be merged in anyway.

That implies that the Octave Release Notes pane should actually be able to
catch non-existent doc subdirs as well, or be grayed out if there's no doc
subdir present in OCTAVE_HOME.





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