[ruby-core:101443] [Ruby master Bug#17337] Don't embed Ruby build-time configuration in Ruby

Issue #17337 has been updated by shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe).


We need to discuss the "whole principle" part.  But in the meamtine we could revert this particular C++ compiler detection business to help eventmachine & sassc.  Thoughts?

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Bug #17337: Don't embed Ruby build-time configuration in Ruby
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/17337#change-89212

* Author: vo.x (Vit Ondruch)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* ruby -v: ruby 3.0.0dev (2020-11-04 master 704fb0b815) [x86_64-linux]
* Backport: 2.5: UNKNOWN, 2.6: UNKNOWN, 2.7: UNKNOWN
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When Ruby 3.0 is built without C++ compiler available, subsequent builds of Eventmachine extensions (or any other gems that require C++ compiler) fail:

~~~
... snip ...

"make \"DESTDIR=\""
I. -I/usr/include -I/usr/include/ruby/backward -I/usr/include -I.  -DHAVE_OPENSSL_SSL_H -DHAVE_OPENSSL_ERR_H -DWITH_SSL -DBUILD_FOR_RUBY -DHAVE_RB_THREAD_CALL_WITHOUT_GVL -DHAVE_RB_THREAD_FD_SELECT -DHAVE_TYPE_RB_FDSET_T -DHAVE_RB_WAIT_FOR_SINGLE_FD -DHAVE_RB_TIME_NEW -DHAVE_INOTIFY_INIT -DHAVE_INOTIFY -DHAVE_WRITEV -DHAVE_PIPE2 -DHAVE_ACCEPT4 -DHAVE_CONST_SOCK_CLOEXEC -DOS_UNIX -DHAVE_EPOLL_CREATE -DHAVE_EPOLL -DHAVE_CLOCK_GETTIME -DHAVE_CONST_CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW -DHAVE_CONST_CLOCK_MONOTONIC    -fPIC -O2 -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fexceptions -g -grecord-gcc-switches -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -fstack-protector-strong -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1  -m64 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection  -m64 -o binder.o -c binder.cpp
make: I.: No such file or directory
make: [Makefile:237: binder.o] Error 127 (ignored)
~~~

This happens since [1].

I would like to question not just the commit, but the whole principle. Availability of C++ compiler during build of Ruby does not have anything to do with availability of C++ compiler during build of whatever Ruby extension.

Moreover, the machine where Ruby is built might be different from the machine where Ruby is used and the extension is installed. Typical examples are binary Linux distributions. RVM also uses precompiled Ruby binaries if I am not mistaken.

Therefore, I would appreciate if we reconsider embedding Ruby build-time configuration in Ruby and reusing it for Ruby extension build. This would solve the issue of Eventmachine I started with, and also issues such as #14422

Just FTR, to avoid this kind of issues, as a Ruby maintainer on Red Hat platforms, I am considering to ship rbconfig.rb in vendorlib, which would dynamically fix these issues. E.g. set the `CONFIG['CXX']` based on C++ compiler availability during extension build. But I'd like to avoid it, at least as a downstream modification.

[1]: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/50b18e81295ad2d45975e4d8ea1e0c7e85140b97

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