How to _only_ install docs in Linux?

[grissiom]

My distro(Slackware) use the qt-copy which has no docs shipped with. So I want to _only_ install the docs to my box so the assistant can work well. I tried "make docs" but I see it will make some thing I do not need and use up nearly 2GB of disk. So, what is the "clever" way to do this kind of job? Thanks in advance.

[fullmetalcoder]

Are you quite sure Slackware doe not provide a qt-docs or qt-devel package?

Now if you are using Qt >= 4.4, which is quite likely if it is KDE4's qt-copy, the only docs you need are the .qch and .qhc files used by the QtHelp module since Qt 4.4

If these are not present on your system and you don't want to build them yourself (which is what make docs does AFAIK but it also generates intermediate files in the process which make take quite some space) you can always download a package that comes with them already built (e.g the qt-win-... on ftp.trolltech.com). This is propably a bit of an overkill to just get the help files but I don't think they are available individually (you could still ask someone to pack them and upload them somewhere for you though).

[grissiom]

Thanks for your quick reply. After some research and hacking, I found the "easiest" way so far is build the qdoc3 and use qdoc3 to convert some qdocconf to qhp and then use qhelpgenerator to generate qch and then install them. Am I right?

[grissiom]

I also find that there are already qch files in the source tarball. But what is the difference between the file come with source and a user generated one?