devhelp and jhbuild

• 24 July 2008
• tips

When I started to use jhbuild I resolved to not compile a whole new Gnome desktop because my work laptop is too slow and freeze easily: I had to reduce the dependencies at minimum and try reuse the libraries already provided by my distro (Ubuntu by the way).The first trouble I had was to have access to the gtk-doc API documentation through the installed devhelp. The solution is simply, but not obvious (at least for me):

Append in ~/.profile

XDG_DATA_DIRS="${XDG_DATA_DIRS}":/opt/jhbuild/share

export XDG_DATA_DIRS

Well, you know you’ve to change the path to your jhbuild deployment directory

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