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05/10/2020

03:58 PM Ruby Bug #16845: Building Ruby with system Ruby 1.8.7 results in make failing due to syntax error in ./tool/lib/vcs.rb

Maybe I am missing something, but I get the same result with `-p`. Log is attached.
The `tar` manpage suggests `-p` is about preserving permissions, not timestamps.
And it looks like the timestamps are preserved even if I don't u... ErikSwan (Erik Swan)

12:33 AM Ruby Bug #16845: Building Ruby with system Ruby 1.8.7 results in make failing due to syntax error in ./tool/lib/vcs.rb

I have updated the title and description to correct where the syntax error is located. It is located in `./tool/lib/vcs.rb`, which is ***called*** by `./tool/file2lastrev.rb`.
From looking at the related issue that Shibata-san linked, i... ErikSwan (Erik Swan)

05/09/2020

11:11 PM Ruby Bug #16845: Building Ruby with system Ruby 1.8.7 results in make failing due to syntax error in ./tool/lib/vcs.rb

From looking through the ChangeLog, it seems there have been a few changes regarding whether `file2lastrev.rb` needs to be run with `BASERUBY` or not, and what version `BASERUBY` is expected to be:
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doc/ChangeLog-2.3.0
34-Thu Dec... ErikSwan (Erik Swan)

10:32 PM Ruby Bug #16845 (Closed): Building Ruby with system Ruby 1.8.7 results in make failing due to syntax error in ./tool/lib/vcs.rb

Hello,
I am trying to build Ruby 2.7.1 from source on a RHEL 6.9 system, which has ruby 1.8.7 as the existing system Ruby. When I run `make`, I get an error about a syntax error in `./tool/lib/vcs.rb`, which is called by `./tool/file2... ErikSwan (Erik Swan)