Bug #17723: autoconf 2.70+ is not working with master branch

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)
• Target version: -
• Backport: 2.5: REQUIRED, 2.6: REQUIRED, 2.7: REQUIRED, 3.0: DONE

[hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)]

MacPorts upgraded the version of autoconf to 2.71 recently. On macOS environment with MacPorts is broken now.

http://rubyci.s3.amazonaws.com/osx1100arm/ruby-master/log/20210314T214503Z.fail.html.gz

[znz (Kazuhiro NISHIYAMA)]

How about adding wrapper script autogen.sh that download required files (config.guess, ...) and run autoconf.

This solution does not depend automake now, and it can use automake for future when needed.

[shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe)]

@znz (Kazuhiro NISHIYAMA) I don't understand why you suddenly start talking about automake. Can't you focus on fixing the bug?

[shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe)]

I guess running autoreconf instead of autoconf fixes the situation. Test code: https://github.com/shyouhei/docker-library/blob/master/%2317723/Dockerfile

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

autoreconf seems to need automake.

[shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe)]

nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) wrote in #note-4:

autoreconf seems to need automake.

Not really. It runs aclocal, and that's because our aclocal.m4 was generated using it.

https://github.com/autotools-mirror/autoconf/blob/300349c84bce66b84b8d9cc8bb6b37d46aa19585/bin/autoreconf.in#L515-L524

We can fix this.

[hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)]

I'm okay to change the official instructions to autoreconf -i instead of autoconf. But I'm not sure that autoreconf -i needs automake.

I will update the usage of autoconf of ruby-build to it after investigating the minimum requirements.

And Should we update its instructions to stable versions like 3.0 and 2.7?

[mame (Yusuke Endoh)]

Regardless whether it depends on automake or not, it would be great to have autogen.sh. I'm used to autoconf, and I have never heard autoreconf -i until this issue. Also, I had to change RubyCI code to support the new build process. It would be good to absorb such a change in autogen.sh instead of each CI configuration.

[mame (Yusuke Endoh)]

I see no objection about autogen.sh, so I've added it. 4250d7c910fd67c0da07c6213901009330e3cd51

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Backport changed from 2.5: UNKNOWN, 2.6: UNKNOWN, 2.7: UNKNOWN, 3.0: UNKNOWN to 2.5: REQUIRED, 2.6: REQUIRED, 2.7: REQUIRED, 3.0: REQUIRED

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Assigned to Closed

[nagachika (Tomoyuki Chikanaga)]

• Backport changed from 2.5: REQUIRED, 2.6: REQUIRED, 2.7: REQUIRED, 3.0: REQUIRED to 2.5: REQUIRED, 2.6: REQUIRED, 2.7: REQUIRED, 3.0: DONE

ruby_3_0 a55ba76617f240337854668c8b5dd9961873f5af merged revision(s) 4250d7c910fd67c0da07c6213901009330e3cd51,83f96642d2d74569cc38319d02d5922fac8f66b8,447feb0aa08e20cc5eeb8b3a6f881de261a2c9a2,1d80d703141f01383604022f9e8e53e10865197c,e271a3d4afc47e812b50fc9c50f6bf34d2d723a6,366e88e508de7c59d69906ad948cccd7979e932b,d825e34962540d345eb3c5a70eb264b415e915a5,4250d7c910fd67c0da07c6213901009330e3cd51,f9e43782995b1f77e7b10c79941bbbda15620e2a.

[nagachika (Tomoyuki Chikanaga)]

And 5a9b5b8e953dc36f4f7f7639e8aeaa8132241c79 too.