From: Ara.T.Howard@...
Date: 2004-10-05T13:34:52+09:00
Subject: Re: problem with rdoc and extensions

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Dave Thomas wrote:

>
> On Oct 4, 2004, at 18:36, Charles Mills wrote:
>
>> Here I am replying to my own post...
>> I looked at the rdoc C parser, it doesn't look like rdoc maintains its
>> state between each .c file.  Is this what is going on?
>
> That's correct - it would be inappropriate to do that when RDoc is used
> (for example) to document all the Ruby extensions.
>
> I'm not sure of an easy way to handle your particular problem, apart,
> perhaps from an ugly cheat. In each .c file that defines classes based
> on the external module, put a definition of the module variable and the
> define_module line in an ifdef's out chunk of code (see, I said it was
> ugly)

how about using cpp, or cat even, to inline all your c sources and the
rdoc'ing one giant source file?

-a
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