From fd45e859aad9a4978afdff0478fc05d8290d75e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dequis <dx@dxzone.com.ar>
Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 20:50:08 -0300
Subject: Allow building docs from any directory

Also just remove the .git check completely - just rely on make skipping
it if it exists already.
---
 doc/user-guide/genhelp.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

(limited to 'doc/user-guide/genhelp.py')

diff --git a/doc/user-guide/genhelp.py b/doc/user-guide/genhelp.py
index c43c8d23..b6a23c11 100644
--- a/doc/user-guide/genhelp.py
+++ b/doc/user-guide/genhelp.py
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 # Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA.
 
 
+import os
 import re
 import sys
 import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
@@ -221,6 +222,9 @@ def main():
         print("Usage: python genhelp.py input.xml output.txt")
         return
 
+    # ensure that we really are in the same directory as the input file
+    os.chdir(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(sys.argv[1])))
+
     txt = process_file(sys.argv[1])
     open(sys.argv[2], "w").write(txt)
 
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