Bug #10716: Erroneous semicolon after AC_CASE

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 2.2.0p0 (2014-12-25 revision 49005) [x86_64-linux-gnu]
• Backport: 2.0.0: DONTNEED, 2.1: DONE, 2.2: DONE

[vo.x (Vit Ondruch)]

This is issue when building with autoconf 2.63 available in RHEL6/CentOS6

BTW I am wondering why Ruby actually enforces autoconf 2.67 and makes plenty of RHEL 6/CentOS 6 users [1] unnecessary issues, when it builds with 2.63 just fine. If there was some justification at least [2].

[1] https://www.google.cz/search?q=ruby+Autoconf+version+2.67+or+higher+is+required
[2] https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/ecb9b98774b01b2eff22fe4a9832ce469f3552e8

[vo.x (Vit Ondruch)]

Forgot to mention the actual error:

$ autoconf
$ ./configure 
./configure: line 63225: syntax error near unexpected token `;'
./configure: line 63225: `; }; then'

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

Vit Ondruch wrote:

BTW I am wondering why Ruby actually enforces autoconf 2.67 and makes plenty of RHEL 6/CentOS 6 users [1] unnecessary issues, when it builds with 2.63 just fine. If there was some justification at least [2].

Because we wanted to skip autoconf 2.64 and 2.66 but AC_PREREQ() can't skip them but allow 2.63.

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed
• % Done changed from 0 to 100

Applied in changeset r49192.

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configure.in: Remove superfluous semicolon

• configure.in (RUBY_SETJMP_TYPE): Remove superfluous semicolon
  which causes a syntax error with autoconf 2.63.
  [ruby-core:67429] [Bug #10716]

[vo.x (Vit Ondruch)]

Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:

Vit Ondruch wrote:

BTW I am wondering why Ruby actually enforces autoconf 2.67 and makes plenty of RHEL 6/CentOS 6 users [1] unnecessary issues, when it builds with 2.63 just fine. If there was some justification at least [2].

Because we wanted to skip autoconf 2.64 and 2.66 but AC_PREREQ() can't skip them but allow 2.63.

Ok, that makes sense. So I'll happily change the AC_PREREQ back to 2.63 for RHEL 6/CentOS 6 packages. Thanks for applying the patch.

[usa (Usaku NAKAMURA)]

• Backport changed from 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: REQUIRED, 2.2: REQUIRED to 2.0.0: DONTNEED, 2.1: REQUIRED, 2.2: REQUIRED

[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Backport changed from 2.0.0: DONTNEED, 2.1: REQUIRED, 2.2: REQUIRED to 2.0.0: DONTNEED, 2.1: REQUIRED, 2.2: DONE

ruby_2_2 r49328 merged revision(s) 49192.

[nagachika (Tomoyuki Chikanaga)]

• Backport changed from 2.0.0: DONTNEED, 2.1: REQUIRED, 2.2: DONE to 2.0.0: DONTNEED, 2.1: DONE, 2.2: DONE

Backported into ruby_2_1 branch at r50130.