[Github-comments] [geany] Detect docutils availability automatically during configure (#863)

Jiří Techet notifications at xxxxx
Sun Jan 10 22:32:51 UTC 2016


> Maybe it'd be okay not to have an HTML manual, but the help menu item tries to access it, so it would result in a diminished version of Geany, and that's why it is as it currently is (optional by default unless you don't have any HTML version already)

Geany falls back to the online version of the manual if the local version doesn't exist which I believe is sufficient (just try removing the local help file - you'll get the online manual when clicking Help).

I was asking mostly because when one wants to explain how to build geany to someone unfamiliar with the build process like in

http://lists.geany.org/pipermail/users/2016-January/009868.html

the easiest way is to say

```
./autogen.sh --disable-html-docs && make && sudo make install
```

because most probably the user doesn't have docutils installed. It would be nice if it was just the standard

```
./autogen.sh && make && sudo make install
```


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