On Jan 12, 2004, at 12:03 PM, Dave Thomas wrote:

> On Jan 12, 2004, at 13:28, J.Herre wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jan 12, 2004, at 8:12 AM, Dave Thomas wrote:
>>
>>> I've checked in a patch, but I have no idea if it does what is 
>>> needed. Could someone with experience of all this DESTDIR stuff try 
>>> it out for me?
>>>
>>
>> Here's 2 more cents.  The output dir used by rdoc should be set via a 
>> command line option and then set to use DESTDIR via the Makefile.  
>> This will be more clear for future maintainers because it explicitly 
>> spells out what is happening without reference to the rdoc code.
>
>
> Does the existing patch work, though...
>
>

 From current cvs I get the following:

gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/jfh/dev/extern/ruby/ext/zlib'
Generating RDoc documentation
/usr/local/bin/ruby ./bin/rdoc --all --ri-system .

unrecognized option `--ri-system'

For help on options, try 'rdoc --help'

gmake: *** [install-doc] Error 1


Not sure why.

-J