Bug #19127: Build of 3.2.0-preview3 fails unless Ruby is already installed

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: -
• Target version: 3.2
• ruby -v: 3.2.0-preview3
• Backport: 2.7: UNKNOWN, 3.0: UNKNOWN, 3.1: UNKNOWN

[yasuhirokimura (Yasuhiro KIMURA)]

Steps to reproduce process

1. Make clean install of operating system.
2. Install tools and libraries necessary to build Ruby with release
   archive files (C Compiler, make, libyaml, etc). Keep in mind any
   version of Ruby isn't installed.
3. Download ruby-3.2.0-preview3.tar.xz.
4. tar xfpvJ ruby-3.2.0-preview3.tar.xz
5. cd ruby-3.2.0-preview3
6. ./configure
7. make

Exptected result

Step 7 finishes successfully.

What really happens

It fails as following.

compiling ruby.c
compiling scheduler.c
compiling shape.c
compiling signal.c
compiling sprintf.c
compiling st.c
compiling strftime.c
compiling string.c
compiling struct.c
compiling symbol.c
compiling thread.c
compiling time.c
compiling transcode.c
compiling transient_heap.c
compiling util.c
compiling variable.c
executable host ruby is required. use --with-baseruby option.
make: *** [uncommon.mk:1232: .revision.time] Error 1

Conditions

Confirmed with following environments.

• Debian 11.5 amd64
• FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE amd64

[jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans)]

This also happens on OpenBSD. I tested with a current OpenBSD snapshot and reproduced, but I assume it also happens on supported OpenBSD releases (7.1 and 7.2).

With OpenBSD make, the error is:

*** Error 1 in /usr/obj/ports/ruby-3.2.0-preview3/ruby-3.2.0-preview3 (Makefile:1958 './.revision.time')

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

Seems by git|39f91bc24baa37db3c3d1485902056f43b013b54.

[hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)]

• Target version set to 3.2

[k0kubun (Takashi Kokubun)]

On the nightly snapshot builds, it wasn't reproducible as of https://github.com/ruby/actions/actions/runs/3371938561/jobs/5594778747, and it has been reproduced since https://github.com/ruby/actions/actions/runs/3380198941/jobs/5612712842. So it seems like something in https://github.com/ruby/ruby/compare/cbf15e5cbe30cbca45810ef65224ad1bc19c67b4...b777408c33b57077f8be09eaed9245eeca0b59c5 caused that problem.

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed

Applied in changeset git|3fae53a343ebd7686bb20d8f4b6855f4d11019cd.

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[Bug #19127] Fix revision.h dependency when no baseruby

Disconnect the dependency of revision.h on the timestamp file if no
baseruby is available