Bug #19887: RUBYOPT doesn't work unless starting with `-`

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)
• Target version: -
• Backport: 3.1: WONTFIX, 3.2: WONTFIX

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

It was working till 1.8.

$ for ruby in ruby{1.{8..9},2.{0..7},3.{0..3}}; do RUBYOPT=w $ruby -e 'puts "'$ruby': #{$VERBOSE}"'; done
ruby1.8: true
ruby1.9: false
ruby2.0: false
ruby2.1: false
ruby2.2: false
ruby2.3: false
ruby2.4: false
ruby2.5: false
ruby2.6: false
ruby2.7: false
ruby3.0: false
ruby3.1: false
ruby3.2: false
ruby3.3: false

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/8465

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Assigned to Closed

Applied in changeset git|c87f2a4f156477ba962de19866a1f6298d567398.

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[Bug #19887] RUBYOPT should work without leading -

[nagachika (Tomoyuki Chikanaga)]

• Backport changed from 3.0: REQUIRED, 3.1: REQUIRED, 3.2: REQUIRED to 3.1: WONTFIX, 3.2: WONTFIX

This is long standing bug and I don't think it's worth to backport.