Hi Uwe,
HelpLinker is still used, but it does not created any Berkeley DB data files.
Best regards, Oliver.
On 09.12.2011 19:01, Uwe Fischer wrote:
Hello Oliver,
so the Helplinker isn't used any more. Good news. Help creation was (and
still is) quite complex and the methods got changed from time to time.
Uwe
Am 09.12.2011 09:56 schrieb "Oliver-Rainer Wittmann"<
[email protected]>:
Hi Uwe,
thanks for the input.
During the investigation I have figured out that during the build certain
data files are prepared/created for the help system in module helpcontent2.
The build process uses a tool which has been created in module l10ntools -
namely HelpLinker.exe. But, the code which would create a Berkeley DB data
file in this tool is (was as I have remove it) no longer active - it was
'dead' by a certain define.
In a try I activated this 'dead' code. But then in the resulting
installation the search in the help system - pane 'Find' - does not work
anymore.
Thus, my findings are that may be in the past Berkeley DB data files are
created during the build from the help content input files, but this is no
longer the case nowadays.
I am more or less sure that I did not miss any other use case - but who is
100% perfect.
Did you know a scenario where may be former created Berkeley DB data files
for the help system are used in a newly made installation?
Best regards, Oliver.
On 08.12.2011 21:27, Uwe Fischer wrote:
Hello,
it is possible, but I'm not sure, that the Berkeley DB is used on compile
time to update the Help index.
If you do not change any Help file, Help will not be rebuilt and you will
not meet an error because of a missing database.
But may be I'm wrong ...
Uwe
Am 08.12.2011 17:42 schrieb "Oliver-Rainer Wittmann"<
[email protected]>:
Hi Eric,
On 08.12.2011 17:31, eric b wrote:
Le 8 déc. 11 à 16:55, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann a écrit :
<snip>
I'll start a build on Mac OS X (Intel, 10.4) tonight.
That is great - thanks.
Best regards, Oliver.
