[ruby-core:109599] [Ruby master Bug#18970] CRuby adds an invalid header to bin/bundle (and others) which makes it unusable in Bash on Windows
From:
"Eregon (Benoit Daloze)" <noreply@...>
Date:
2022-08-20 14:20:41 UTC
List:
ruby-core #109599
Issue #18970 has been updated by Eregon (Benoit Daloze).
Ah, maybe this cryptic header actually works for Bash too?
Then the problem is that CRuby adds it instead of RubyGems.
It should be RubyGems adding it, so that `bin/bundle` is the same before and after `gem install bundler` and `gem install bundler` doesn't fail as mentioned above.
The missing executable permission is likely still an issue in CRuby.
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Bug #18970: CRuby adds an invalid header to bin/bundle (and others) which makes it unusable in Bash on Windows
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/18970#change-98780
* Author: Eregon (Benoit Daloze)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Backport: 2.7: UNKNOWN, 3.0: UNKNOWN, 3.1: UNKNOWN
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Same as https://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller2/issues/299, but I figured it's extremely likely to be a bug in CRuby and not in RubyInstaller2.
The original user issue is: https://github.com/ruby/setup-ruby/issues/371.
`bundle` does not work in a Bash shell on Windows -- without an extra `gem install bundler` --, and the reason is building CRuby on Windows either does not produce a `bin/bundle` or it has the wrong permissions and the wrong start.
I downloaded all latest releases from https://github.com/ruby/setup-ruby/blob/master/windows-versions.json and extracted them (I'm on Linux FWIW).
```
$ ls
rubyinstaller-2.4.10-1-x64 rubyinstaller-2.6.10-1-x64 rubyinstaller-3.0.4-1-x64 rubyinstaller-head-x64 ruby-mswin
rubyinstaller-2.4.10-1-x64.7z rubyinstaller-2.6.10-1-x64.7z rubyinstaller-3.0.4-1-x64.7z rubyinstaller-head-x64.7z ruby-mswin.7z
rubyinstaller-2.5.9-1-x64 rubyinstaller-2.7.6-1-x64 rubyinstaller-3.1.2-1-x64 ruby-mingw ruby-ucrt
rubyinstaller-2.5.9-1-x64.7z rubyinstaller-2.7.6-1-x64.7z rubyinstaller-3.1.2-1-x64.7z ruby-mingw.7z ruby-ucrt.7z
```
Of course only Ruby 2.7+ ships with Bundler, so for <=2.6 it's expected to be missing.
```
$ ls -l */bin/bundle
-rw-r--r--. 1 eregon eregon 707 Apr 19 22:22 rubyinstaller-3.1.2-1-x64/bin/bundle
-rw-r--r--. 1 eregon eregon 707 Aug 19 22:40 rubyinstaller-head-x64/bin/bundle
-rw-rw-rw-. 1 eregon eregon 564 Aug 20 11:15 ruby-mingw/bin/bundle
-rw-rw-rw-. 1 eregon eregon 829 Aug 20 11:09 ruby-mswin/bin/bundle
-rw-rw-rw-. 1 eregon eregon 564 Aug 20 11:20 ruby-ucrt/bin/bundle
```
So only 3.1 and head have bin/bundle.
But those 2 bin/bundle do not have the executable bit set.
They also start like this which sounds invalid for Bash:
```
$ cat rubyinstaller-3.1.2-1-x64/bin/bundle
:""||{ ""=> %q<-*- ruby -*-
@"%~dp0ruby" -x "%~f0" %*
@exit /b %ERRORLEVEL%
};{ #
bindir="${0%/*}" #
exec "$bindir/ruby" "-x" "$0" "$@" #
>,
}
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
#
# This file was generated by RubyGems.
...
```
On https://github.com/eregon/setup-ruby/runs/7843304711?check_suite_focus=true we can see 3.0, 3.1 and head fail for `echo ~ && which -a bundle` in bash.
2.7 avoids the issue in that CI run because the Bundler version is considered too old by setup-ruby and so `gem install bundler` is done there.
## Needed fix
In general, I think it is *very* important that CRuby does NOT modify files in `bin/`, and so that they are exactly the same as when RubyGems would write them when installing the corresponding gem.
This has been a problem not only here but also in these two other issues:
* `gem install bundler` fails on Windows, needs `--force` to workaround: https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/issues/5245
* `gem install bundler` fails on `--enable-load-relative` Rubies: https://github.com/ruby/setup-ruby/issues/98#issuecomment-719950719
`tool/rbinstall.rb` seems to be responsible for changing the `bin/` files and therefore causing those bugs:
https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/209631a45f9682dedf718f4b4a140efe7d21a6fc/tool/rbinstall.rb#L487
Can we remove that?
Not that this issue cannot be solved in RubyGems, it's CRuby breaking `bin/bundle` (and others) in Bash on Windows.
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