Bug #19481: make: *** No rule to make target 'defs/universal.mk'. Stop.

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: k0kubun (Takashi Kokubun)
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 3.1.0dev (2021-06-03T06:59:33Z master 7e14762159) [x86_64-linux]
• Backport: 2.7: UNKNOWN, 3.0: UNKNOWN, 3.1: UNKNOWN, 3.2: UNKNOWN

[duerst (Martin Dürst)]

When I tried to compile Ruby with make up; make, I got the message in the Subject.
The line before said:
GNUmakefile:30: defs/universal.mk: No such file or directory

Below is the start of the output. git seems to correctly download new stuff. But apparently something is missing. I hope this problem can be fixed soon.

duerst@Kloentalersee:~/15ruby$ make up; make
remote: Enumerating objects: 4839, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (4839/4839), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (2467/2467), done.
remote: Total 4839 (delta 3132), reused 2965 (delta 2049), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (4839/4839), 3.20 MiB | 2.53 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (3132/3132), completed with 391 local objects.
From git.ruby-lang.org:ruby
   cb40432c74..f68580890f  master             -> origin/master
   a4ab9921a1..0602df301c  ruby_3_1           -> origin/ruby_3_1
   31819e82c8..f93c7b9f58  ruby_3_2           -> origin/ruby_3_2
   8f9b896b51..926b22ef5c  refs/notes/commits -> refs/notes/commits
Updating cb40432c74..f68580890f
Fast-forward

[hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)]

• Status changed from Open to Assigned
• Assignee set to k0kubun (Takashi Kokubun)

defs/universal.mk was removed from template/GNUmakefile.in at https://git.ruby-lang.org/ruby.git/commit/?id=31f4b2d86bfbc753cec9be376719acc4b120e944

@k0kubun (Takashi Kokubun) Should we invoke ./configure again?

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

./config.status would re-generate makefiles.
Or, invoking make 3 times seems enough to refresh the files.

[k0kubun (Takashi Kokubun)]

• Status changed from Assigned to Closed

Accepting @nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) 's answer as the solution.

I personally just blew away the entire build directory, but a colleague of mine did ./autogen.sh, ./configure, and make in an existing build directory and it worked. It might work without ./autogen.sh as @hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA) said, but I haven't tested it.