From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-05-11T13:37:03+09:00
Subject: Re: ri


On May 11, 2007, at 1:20 PM, Peter Seebach wrote:

> In message <5C15F18F-CE04-4C9E-928C-3A7C1E36DE92@gmail.com>, John  
> Joyce writes:
>> Does ri know the path to your docs ?
>
> It seems to.
>
>> This is the same location as my system's man pages.
>
> Mine too.
>
>> You may have to add docs to ri yourself. (it seems...)
>> you need to run rdoc
>
>> Ruby's standard library and built in classes and modules:
>
>> rdoc --ri-system
>
>> (need to be in the Ruby source code directory, probably:    /lib
>>   maybe /lib/ruby  )=
>
> I can't find a directory in which this doesn't say "No newer files".
>
> More disturbingly, if I go into the source/lib directory and run,  
> e.g.,
> "rdoc cgi.rb", I can't figure out where the created file is GOING.   
> Not,
> in any event, into the system ri directory, or anywhere that 'ri CGI'
> can find it.
>
> Ahh!  Going into the build directory and running 'make install-doc'
> has fixed it.  I'll send a bug report to the NetBSD package maintainer
> that this ought to be at least an option for the package, and probably
> the default.
>
> -s
>
Sometimes packages are unreliable. It's a pain, but manual installs  
get you the details (no choice but details!). Especially since many  
systems are so similar yet different.