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Brian Candler

10/6/2004 10:40:00 AM

I have ruby-1.8.2p2 installed, and as I'm trying to wean myself off grepping
through the Pickaxe V1 whenever I want to find information, I'm trying to
convert to using 'ri'

However, it seems that nothing from the ext/ subdirectories of Ruby has made
it into my ri collection:

$ ri Zlib
Nothing known about Zlib
$ ri Iconv
Nothing known about Iconv

even though grepping the source seems to show that three ext modules have
been marked up for rdoc:

ext/iconv/iconv.c: * call-seq: Iconv.new(to, from)
ext/strscan/strscan.c: * call-seq: StringScanner.new(string, dup = false)
ext/zlib/zlib.c: * call-seq: Zlib.adler32(string, adler)

Is this a bug in the configure/install process?

However, given that the rest of the ext/ directories have not been marked
up, especially ext/socket, then it looks like I will be grepping Pickaxe V1
for some time to come anyway :-)

Regards,

Brian.
2 Answers

Dave Thomas

10/6/2004 12:18:00 PM

0


On Oct 6, 2004, at 5:40, Brian Candler wrote:
> However, it seems that nothing from the ext/ subdirectories of Ruby
> has made
> it into my ri collection:


> $ ri Zlib
> Nothing known about Zlib
> $ ri Iconv
> Nothing known about Iconv

Whoever marked them up probably forgot to add their names to the
document file, so they weren't included.


Cheers

Dave

Brian Candler

10/6/2004 12:57:00 PM

0

On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 09:17:51PM +0900, Dave Thomas wrote:
> >However, it seems that nothing from the ext/ subdirectories of Ruby
> >has made
> >it into my ri collection:
>
>
> >$ ri Zlib
> >Nothing known about Zlib
> >$ ri Iconv
> >Nothing known about Iconv
>
> Whoever marked them up probably forgot to add their names to the
> .document file, so they weren't included.

$ find . -name '*.document'
/.document
/lib/.document
/lib/cgi/.document
$

OK. I've stuck what I think are the necessary files into the attached
tarball. Do they look right to you? If so perhaps they can be committed.

Cheers,

Brian.