Re: trouble generating ri of Ruby 1.9 on Fedora Core 4

Quoth Maksim Khrapov:
> I'm trying to compile Ruby 1.9 on my web hosting provider's box running 
Fedora Core 4.
Perhaps this is why? FC4 is 2+ years old.

> It compiles just fine, but when I do "make install" and try to generate the 
docs, it chokes. 
> 
> Here is the error message:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> No definition for rb_fiber_m_transfer
> ..
> No definition for rb_fiber_alive_p
> ..
> No definition for rb_fiber_s_current
> ..
> file.c: 
mcmc......................................................................................................................................
> vm_dump.c:
> eval_safe.c:
> time.c:

c.........................................../home/maksim/ruby-1.9.0-0/lib/rdoc/parsers/parse_c.rb:630:in 
`find_body': unmatched close parenthesis: /((?>\/\*.*?\*\/\s*))
(?:static\s+)?VALUE\s+time_utc_offset (RegexpError)
> \s*(\([^)]*\))\s*\{.*?^\}/mx      
from /home/maksim/ruby-1.9.0-0/lib/rdoc/parsers/parse_c.rb:619:in 
`handle_method'
> from /home/maksim/ruby-1.9.0-0/lib/rdoc/parsers/parse_c.rb:415:in `block in 
do_methods'
> from /home/maksim/ruby-1.9.0-0/lib/rdoc/parsers/parse_c.rb:392:in `scan'
> from /home/maksim/ruby-1.9.0-0/lib/rdoc/parsers/parse_c.rb:392:in 
`do_methods'
> from /home/maksim/ruby-1.9.0-0/lib/rdoc/parsers/parse_c.rb:195:in `scan'
> from /home/maksim/ruby-1.9.0-0/lib/rdoc/rdoc.rb:231:in `block in 
parse_files'
> from /home/maksim/ruby-1.9.0-0/lib/rdoc/rdoc.rb:219:in `each'
> from /home/maksim/ruby-1.9.0-0/lib/rdoc/rdoc.rb:219:in `parse_files'
> from /home/maksim/ruby-1.9.0-0/lib/rdoc/rdoc.rb:269:in `document'
> from ./bin/rdoc:63:in `<main>'
> make: *** [rdoc] Error 1
> [2] openhost:~/ruby-1.9.0-0
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> which shows that the culprit is time.c file. The funny thing is that 
generating docs for just this file by itself works OK:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [1] openhost:~/ruby-1.9.0-0
> 
$ ./miniruby  ./runruby.rb --extout=.ext  -- "./bin/rdoc" --all --ri --op ".ext/rdoc2" 
time.c
> 
> time.c: c..............................................................
> Generating RI...
> 
> Files:   1
> Classes: 1
> Modules: 0
> Methods: 62
> Elapsed: 0.526s
> [0] openhost:~/ruby-1.9.0-0
> $
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> At home, on Fedora 8 box everything works fine.  Any help, please?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Max

Install Fedora 8 on your server box.

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