Re: Installing Ruby from Source, README needs the command 'make install-doc' documented
James Britt <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:11:41 -0700
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.lang.ruby.documentation |
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| Organization | ruby-doc.org |
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Micah Cochran wrote: > I sent the following email to the Ruby Talk mailing list on > September 22, 2006, but I never got a response. > > ... > My only request is to include this command in the README file that > is included with the source distribution in a section immediately after the > installation portion of this document. I make this request is so that > everyone who is using ruby in a development environment--myself > included--won't forget this helpful step. > Not a bad suggestion. I've gotten into the habit of running ./configure --help whenever installation anything from source to see what the defaults are, but it's easy to miss things. I would prefer that the docs were installed by default; I'd be surprised if a large number of people install Ruby but skip the docs. > Please let me know what I need to do or who I need to contact in order to > get this into the README file. I believe that would have to be discussed on the ruby-core list. James