[Gambas-user] [Advanced][obscure][hopefully banal][probably stupid] Offline help on a local server

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 14/05/2021 à 09:13, Bruce a écrit :
> On 14/5/21 4:40 pm, Bruce wrote:
>> I have been trying to find a way to have the Gambas offline help to 
>> reside in a shared folder on our little network so that everyone here 
>> can use it and not have to do there own downloads to 
>> ~/.local/share/gambas3/wiki
>>
>> The target directory (on the local server) is /srv/gbshare/wiki
>>
>> I have managed (somehow! DIIK how) to download it into that directory.
>>
>> BUT the IDE does not seem to cope with me setting a symbolic link in 
>> ~/.local/share/gambas3 to that directory. It crashes if I try to turn 
>> on offline help in the Gambas preferences dialog.
>>
>> Anyone got any clues (before I start taking a sledgehammer to our 
>> local version of the IDE)
>>
>> tia
>> bruce
> 
> ps All I get is a seg fault
> 
> gambas3
> Segmentation fault
> 
> and that's all.
> b
> 
> ----[ http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/doc/netiquette ]----

I replaced the "~/.local/share/gambas3/wiki" directory by a symbolic 
link, and everything seems to work as expected.

Please give more details, and a stack backtrace of the crash if 
possible, as explained on the "Reporting a problem" page on the wiki.

-- 
Benoît Minisini