DevHelp on SuSE Linux

[Paul Santa Maria <paulsm1021 yahoo com>]

Hi -

Over the weekend, I posted a question about a problem I was having running the
SuSE-built RPM for DevHelp 7.0:

  devhelp (under default KDE 3.1 desktop, SuSE 8.2) =>
(devhelp:2783): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 1319
(g_object_ref): assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
...

I tried building and debugging the DevHelp source:

  1. DevHelp 9.x wouldn't build at all (without updating everything).

  2. Once I successfully built my own DevHelp 7.x, it died with 
     exactly the same "assert error"/segmentation fault.  The closest
     I came to debugging the root cause was that it died
     in "gtk_widget_show_all()" after successfully creating the
     main window in "dh_window_new()".

  3. Problems 1) and 2) were with SuSE 8.2.

     The DevHelp (v 8.01) that comes with SuSE 9.2, I discovered this
     morning, works with no problem.

So I have DevHelp running on SuSE 9.2 (where I need it most), and 
I've given up trying to get it working on SuSE 8.2.

But why should the GTK+ documentation be limited to DevHelp (or 
static HTML pages)?  Why can't they be also be made available in (easily
indexed/searchable) "man" and/or "info" formats?

I'd be happy to help.  How would I go about it?

Thank you in advance .. PSM