From: "James F.  Hranicky" <jfh@...>
Date: 2004-01-12T22:49:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Best way to install ri documentation -- please check this

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 22:24:17 +0900
"James F.  Hranicky" <jfh@cise.ufl.edu> wrote:

> The first problem with using DESTDIR I've run into is that ruby may not
> be installed in its final place yet when rdoc is run, leaving you
> with this:

Also, it doesn't appear the install for ri uses DESTDIR:

    Generating RI...
    /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9/ftools.rb:140:in `mkdir': Permission denied - /usr/local/share/ri (Errno::EACCES)
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9/ftools.rb:140:in `makedirs'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9/ftools.rb:133:in `each'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9/ftools.rb:133:in `makedirs'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9/ftools.rb:136:in `makedirs'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9/ftools.rb:133:in `each'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9/ftools.rb:133:in `makedirs'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9/ftools.rb:136:in `makedirs'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9/ftools.rb:133:in `each'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9/ftools.rb:133:in `makedirs'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9/rdoc/rdoc.rb:128:in `setup_output_dir'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9/rdoc/rdoc.rb:253:in `document'
        from ./bin/rdoc:63

If it did follow DESTDIR, a normal user could install both ruby and the new
ri/rdoc files into DESTDIR without being root.

Jim