From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2004-01-06T13:27:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Best way to install ri documentation -- please check this


On Jan 5, 2004, at 21:53, NAKAMURA, Hiroshi wrote:
> 1. Rdocing requires ruby to be installed(yaml, etc.).  So target
>   rdoc must depends install-nodoc.
>

Could I use the same trick that 'make test' does, and simply add the 
SO's to the appropriate path?

> 2. miniruby might not be able to load syck.so so target rdoc must
>   use ruby instead of miniruby.
>

I wasn't sure about this: the miniruby on my platform seems to run 
fine. Is this just a coincidence?


> 3. there could not be sources in the current dir.
>

I'm probably wrong, but doesn't the rest of the Makefile assume that 
it's running in the source directory (there are dependencies on files 
such a Makefile itself).


> By the way, configure option --disable-rdoc seems good.
> --enable-rdoc is better for me (never mind. :-)

Could someone familiar with autoconf show me how to do this?


Or, as I'm sensing some resistance here, should we simply change it so 
that end-users need to do an explicit

    make doc


Cheers

Dave