Bug #8989: Ruby 2.1 unable to build because of problem with rdoc directory

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 2.0.0p195 (2013-05-14 revision 40734) [x86_64-linux]

[AlamoZ (Adrien Lamothe)]

Trying to build ruby-2.1.0-preview1 and am receiving the following error when running make:

Generating RDoc documentation

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)

/usr/software/ruby/ruby-2.1.0-preview1/lib/rdoc/rdoc.rb:108:in error' /usr/software/ruby/ruby-2.1.0-preview1/lib/rdoc/rdoc.rb:208:in rescue in setup_output_dir'
/usr/software/ruby/ruby-2.1.0-preview1/lib/rdoc/rdoc.rb:195:in setup_output_dir' /usr/software/ruby/ruby-2.1.0-preview1/lib/rdoc/rdoc.rb:475:in document'
./bin/rdoc:20:in `'

make: *** [rdoc] Error 1

[AlamoZ (Adrien Lamothe)]

Also, I have just tried to build Ruby 2.0.0-p247 on the same machine and have experienced the same problem. I have never had this problem before, so it looks like something that has changed in 2.0.0-p247.

[zzak (zzak _)]

• Status changed from Open to Feedback

Did you try "make distclean" first?

[hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)]

• Target version changed from 2.1.0 to 2.2.0

[AlamoZ (Adrien Lamothe)]

This is still a problem when building 2.2.0-preview1. The problem still occurs even if first running 'make distclean'.

[AlamoZ (Adrien Lamothe)]

I can build 2.2.0-preview1 without rdoc, which is fine for now, by adding the configure flag --disable-install-rdoc

[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Target version deleted (2.2.0)

[jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans)]

• Status changed from Feedback to Closed
• Backport deleted (1.9.3: UNKNOWN, 2.0.0: UNKNOWN)