Bug #3121: "make rdoc" fails

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: drbrain (Eric Hodel)
• Target version: 1.9.2
• ruby -v: ruby 1.9.2dev (2010-04-10 trunk 27284) [i686-linux]

[mame (Yusuke Endoh)]

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Hi, Eric Hodel

Maybe because of recent change of rdoc, "make rdoc" fails on trunk
when there is already .ext/rdoc:

$ rm -rf .ext/rdoc

$ make rdoc
snip

success

$ make
snip
Generating RDoc documentation
./miniruby -I./lib -I.ext/common -I./- -r./ext/purelib.rb ./tool/runruby.rb --extout=.ext -- "./bin/rdoc" --no-force-update --all --ri --op ".ext/rdoc" "."
uh-oh! RDoc had a problem:

Directory .ext/rdoc already exists, but it looks like it
isn't an RDoc directory. Because RDoc doesn't want to risk
destroying any of your existing files, you'll need to
specify a different output directory name (using the
--op

option).

run with --debug for full backtrace
make: *** [rdoc] Error 1

Because of this, "make" itself also fails now. It really disturbs
other developers. Please check (and fix) ASAP.

--
Yusuke Endoh [e-mail]
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[404 (why 404)]

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I got the same error message when I was using the RVM to install Ruby from trunk source. Hope it will be working ASAP! :)

~$ rvm install 1.9.2-head

Installing Ruby from source to: ~/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-head
Running autoconf
Configuring ruby-1.9.2-head, this may take a while depending on your cpu(s)...
Compiling ruby-1.9.2-head, this may take a while, depending on your cpu(s)...
Installing ruby-1.9.2-head
Error running 'make install', please check ~/.rvm/log/ruby-1.9.2-head/install*.log
There has been an error while running make install. Aborting the installation.

~$ cat ~/.rvm/log/ruby-1.9.2-head/install.error.log

[2010-04-11 01:48:50] make install
uh-oh! RDoc had a problem:

Directory .ext/rdoc already exists, but it looks like it
isn't an RDoc directory. Because RDoc doesn't want to risk
destroying any of your existing files, you'll need to
specify a different output directory name (using the
--op

option).

run with --debug for full backtrace
make: *** [rdoc] error 1

So I changed my mind to use ruby-1.9.2-preview1, just run the following command：

~$ rvm install 1.9.2 --head

It workes!
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[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

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I fixed it in r27288.
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[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

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Eric, close this ticket when you merge r27288 to your repo.
(r27290 is also a fix for rdoc).
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[drbrain (Eric Hodel)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed

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I have applied both of these changes and added tests.

RDoc has been updated to 2.5.3.
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