Re: Help suckage for GNOME2

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Kevin Vandersloot <kfv101 psu edu> writes:
> Hello all. Basically it seems help is not working at all for GNOME2.
> I've done some investigation - hopefully someone knows how to solve the
> problems.

I don't have a clue on most of it, though clearly this is a
showstopper issue.
 
> 1) First is the call to get_toc_location. It seems the call to popen
> wasn't working. I typed the cmd string on a command line and it returned
> the proper file to open yet popen wasn't working. It seems that
> scrollkeeper-get-toc-from-docpath is appending a "\n" to the end of the
> file name. I think this is what is screwing up popen.

To comment on the most trivial part of your mail. ;-) Should be using
g_spawn_* instead of popen() probably to avoid nasty issues with the
shell getting involved.

Havoc