From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2003-12-31T13:10:07+09:00
Subject: Re: RDOC generation broken in 1.8.1


On Dec 28, 2003, at 22:06, Chris White wrote:

> I'm very new to Ruby, but I have successfully built and installed Ruby 
> 1.8.1
> from the source code (using the VC7 compiler).  However, when I use 
> rdoc to
> generate Ruby documentation, I get the following error messages 
> towards the
> end of the rdoc process:
>
> Generating CHM...
> E:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/generators/html_generator.rb:419:in
> `build_method_detail_list': undefined

This is fixed in the latest CVS: it was a conventional bug (jcode 
extended class String, and aliases a public method, making the original 
private. When it came time to display the name of the aliases method, 
it wasn't present (because RDoc wasn't run with the --all flag), so the 
generator barfed).

However, when I now run the CHM generation under windows, Microsoft's 
hcc dies with the error:

    Runtime error R6002:  floating point not loaded

It might be something to do with the fact that some of the HTML I'm 
feeding it has unescaped '<' characters in method definitions (a bug in 
RDoc that's on the list to fix), but if anyone knows for sure what the 
error means I'd be grateful.


Cheers


Dave