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Bug 95398 - gsview-4.6-r1 ebuild does not install gsview-help (from srcunx/gvxhelp.txt)
Summary: gsview-4.6-r1 ebuild does not install gsview-help (from srcunx/gvxhelp.txt)
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Unspecified (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Printing Team
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Reported: 2005-06-07 16:40 UTC by Joe Wells
Modified: 2005-06-08 03:52 UTC (History)
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Description Joe Wells 2005-06-07 16:40:54 UTC
The online help functionality of gsview depends on there being an installed
program somewhere in PATH named gsview-help.  This is supposed to be just a copy
of the file srcunx/gvxhelp.txt that comes with gsview.  For some unknown reason,
the gsview-4.6-r1 ebuild does not install this file.

Anyway, this file is just a trivial shell script that invokes "mozilla" to
display a .html file.  It should really instead invoke whatever browser the user
prefers for this purpose.  In my case I would prefer Firefox to be invoked.  Is
there a program in portage that does the right thing that can be used for this?
 Maybe the gsview ebuild should come with its own gsview-help script that knows
how to invoke some program which knows how to invoke the user's preferred browser.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install gsview.
2.Try to use any of the help menu items.
Actual Results:  
Notice that the help menu items don't work.  (strace reveals that a subprocess
fails to find a program named gsview-help in PATH to run.)

Expected Results:  
Displayed the help .html files in a web browser.

Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12
Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r0,
2.6.8.1-co-0.6.2-pre1 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.8.1-co-0.6.2-pre1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1100MHz
dev-lang/python:     2.2.3-r1, 2.3.5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.8
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig candy distlocks moo sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.blueyonder.co.uk
ftp://gentoo.blueyonder.co.uk/mirrors/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS=""
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/extra/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X Xaw3d acl apache2 bitmap-fonts bonobo crypt emacs emacs-w3 emboss
escreen esd etwin fam fortran fpx gcj gd gd-external gif glitz graphviz gtk gtk2
guile imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jbig jpeg latex lcms leim libg++ libwww lua
lzw-tiff mad mailwrapper md5sum mmx motif mozdevelop mozilla mozsvg mozxmlterm
mp3 mpeg ncurses nodrm nptl objc ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pam_chroot pam_console
pam_timestamp perl php png python readline samba sdk slang snmp socks5 spell sse
ssl tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis wmf
xinerama xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
Comment 1 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-06-08 03:52:54 UTC
fixed.