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Andrew Hunt

2004-Mar-08 17:50 UTC

[Rubyinstaller-devel] [Fwd: problem installing ri with cygwin]

More on the ri/rdoc/irb issues.  It''s the same old story, but I thought
I''d send this along for posterity.

-----Forwarded Message-----
> From: Bret Pettichord <bret@pettichord.com>
> To: andy@toolshed.com
> Subject: problem installing ri with cygwin
> Date: 08 Mar 2004 15:10:56 -0600
> 
> I have installed ri from 
> http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ruby/downloads/ri.html. I actually 
> installed it twice, once for my mswin32 ruby and once for my cygwin ruby. 
> The mswin32 ruby worked fine. The cygwin didn''t, although i was
able to
> correct this.
> 
> This report documents the problem and how i worked around it.
> 
> This demonstrates the problem:
> 
> $ ruby install.rb
> install.rb:46: warning: string =~ string will be obsolete; use explicit
regexp
> Generating binary help information
> chmod 0755 /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/ri
> Installing reference material
> descriptions/Array -> /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/ri/Array
> chmod 0644 /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/ri/Array
> descriptions/index -> /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/ri/index
> chmod 0644 /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/ri/index
> descriptions/Bignum -> /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/ri/Bignum
> chmod 0644 /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/ri/Bignum
> ...
> 
> $ ri Array
> Nothing known about Array
> 
> $ ri
> 
> alpha 0.1
> 
> Usage:
> ...
> 
> Classes and modules I know about:
> 
> ClassIndex, ClassModule, Emacs, Fragment, GtkPlain, GtkRiWin, ListEntry, 
> MethodD
> esc, MethodIndex, NilPlain, OurTopics, OutputStream, Paragraph, Plain, 
> QuickSear
> ch, RI, Tagged, Verbatim
> 
> For help, type ''ri -h''
> 
> ----
> 
> How i solved the problem
> 
> I used `which ri` to find out that it was /usr/bin/ri. When i looked at 
> that file, it was timestamped in December. However, /usr/bin/ri.rb had 
> todays timestamp. I removed the old ri and copied ri.rb as ri. This 
> corrected my problem.
> 
> I don''t know where the old ri came from or why it wasn''t
overwritten by the
> install.
> 
> Hope this helps. Thanks again for making this available.
>

Curt Hibbs

2004-Mar-08 23:57 UTC

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[Rubyinstaller-devel] [Fwd: problem installing ri with cygwin]

Good timing, I would probably have been dealing with this one this weekend.
Perhaps we can implement this in the build script as a temporary workaround
that would self-correct once it is no longer necessary.

I will add the additional info to the open bug report we have on this.

Curt
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rubyinstaller-devel-bounces@rubyforge.org
> [mailto:rubyinstaller-devel-bounces@rubyforge.org]On Behalf Of Andrew
> Hunt
> Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 4:38 PM
> To: Ruby Installer List
> Subject: [Rubyinstaller-devel] [Fwd: problem installing ri with cygwin]
>
>
> More on the ri/rdoc/irb issues.  It''s the same old story, but I
thought
> I''d send this along for posterity.
>
> -----Forwarded Message-----
>
> > From: Bret Pettichord <bret@pettichord.com>
> > To: andy@toolshed.com
> > Subject: problem installing ri with cygwin
> > Date: 08 Mar 2004 15:10:56 -0600
> >
> > I have installed ri from
> > http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ruby/downloads/ri.html. I actually
> > installed it twice, once for my mswin32 ruby and once for my
> cygwin ruby.
> > The mswin32 ruby worked fine. The cygwin didn''t, although i
was able to
> > correct this.
> >
> > This report documents the problem and how i worked around it.
> >
> > This demonstrates the problem:
> >
> > $ ruby install.rb
> > install.rb:46: warning: string =~ string will be obsolete; use
> explicit regexp
> > Generating binary help information
> > chmod 0755 /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/ri
> > Installing reference material
> > descriptions/Array -> /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/ri/Array
> > chmod 0644 /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/ri/Array
> > descriptions/index -> /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/ri/index
> > chmod 0644 /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/ri/index
> > descriptions/Bignum -> /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/ri/Bignum
> > chmod 0644 /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/ri/Bignum
> > ...
> >
> > $ ri Array
> > Nothing known about Array
> >
> > $ ri
> >
> > alpha 0.1
> >
> > Usage:
> > ...
> >
> > Classes and modules I know about:
> >
> > ClassIndex, ClassModule, Emacs, Fragment, GtkPlain, GtkRiWin,
> ListEntry,
> > MethodD
> > esc, MethodIndex, NilPlain, OurTopics, OutputStream, Paragraph, Plain,
> > QuickSear
> > ch, RI, Tagged, Verbatim
> >
> > For help, type ''ri -h''
> >
> > ----
> >
> > How i solved the problem
> >
> > I used `which ri` to find out that it was /usr/bin/ri. When i looked
at
> > that file, it was timestamped in December. However, /usr/bin/ri.rb had
> > todays timestamp. I removed the old ri and copied ri.rb as ri. This
> > corrected my problem.
> >
> > I don''t know where the old ri came from or why it
wasn''t
> overwritten by the
> > install.
> >
> > Hope this helps. Thanks again for making this available.
> >
>
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