Bug #8968: Baseruby is required after patching configure.in

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 2.1.0dev (2013-09-22 trunk 43011) [x86_64-linux]
• Backport: 1.9.3: UNKNOWN, 2.0.0: UNKNOWN

[vo.x (Vit Ondruch)]

It sometimes happens, that during packaging Ruby, it is necessary to patch configure.in (we are doing so in Fedora, there are patches in Debian, RVM does so occasionally as well). Unfortunately, since rev 42685, if the configure.in is patched, it has newer timestamp than sizes.c and therefore sizes.c should be regenerated. For that Ruby is required. Unfortunately, miniruby is not build yet at that stage and we don't want to have other Ruby on the system, due to possible bootstrapping issues.

I can workaround it by touch sizes.c after the patch is applied, but is there change to remove/fix this dependency? Thanks.

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Open to Third Party's Issue

[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Status changed from Third Party's Issue to Rejected

You should suggest acceptable plan.
You know such way is not acceptable.

[vo.x (Vit Ondruch)]

naruse (Yui NARUSE) wrote:

You should suggest acceptable plan.
You know such way is not acceptable.

I know, but I had to report it for the record. I stay with 'touch' for now. Hopefully other folks come later with better idea.

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

Not only sizes.c, you need BASERUBY to generate some source files after touching template files.
It's your responsibility.

[vo.x (Vit Ondruch)]

nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) wrote:

Not only sizes.c, you need BASERUBY to generate some source files after touching template files.
It's your responsibility.

Yes, it may happen that I may need to change some template for whatever reason, but configure.in is probably one of the first files which needs to be changed for whatever reason. For example similar patch like this one [1] is applied to Fedora's package for ages. Not sure if that makes sense to propose it upstream.

[1] http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/ruby.git/tree/ruby-1.9.3-always-use-i386.patch

[vo.x (Vit Ondruch)]

Thank you for fixing this.