Bug 214965

Summary:	wrong path for $PYTHONDOCS
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	thierry volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto+gentoobug>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description thierry volpiatto 2008-03-26 20:10:22 UTC

Hi,
by default, gentoo set environment variable PYTHONDOCS
to :
,----
| /usr/share/doc/python-docs-2.5.1/html/lib 
`----

with python 2.4 it was the same.
Thats never work for me and i saw on french forums similar case.

I set this variable to:

,----
| /usr/share/doc/python-docs-2.5.1/html 
`----

And like that it's work:

May be that can be changed in ebuild.

Thierry.

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-03-26 20:28:27 UTC

You'll have to tell us what 'never work' exactly means, since the path is correct as it is.

Comment 2 thierry volpiatto 2008-03-26 20:55:25 UTC

Don't work mean that if you try to get doc of any primitive
you have an error like:

,----
| >>> help('print')
| 
| Sorry, topic and keyword documentation is not available because the Python
| HTML documentation files could not be found.  If you have installed them,
| please set the environment variable PYTHONDOCS to indicate their location.
`----

setting PYTHONDOCS to 

,----
| /usr/share/doc/python-docs-2.5.1/html
`----

solve the problem.