Bug #10736: configure does not check for missing ruby

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 2.2.0p0 (2014-12-25 revision 49005)
• Backport: 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN, 2.2: UNKNOWN

[eike.rb (Eike Dierks)]

The ./configure script should check if a version of ruby is installed.

Currently not such check is performed.

Current behaviour:
configure succeeds even if the is no version of ruby available.
make fails with: "executable host ruby is required. use --with-baseruby option."

Suggested behaviour:
configure should check for a usable ruby
This check should be performed early in ./configure
as any further attempt to build will fail if no ruby is available

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected

BASERUBY is not necessary when all files have been generated, e.g., unpacked from tarballs, shared with another machine, etc.