[ruby-core:122756] [Ruby Bug#21340] Bump autoconf version to properly handle C23 bool/stdbool defines

Issue #21340 has been updated by k0kubun (Takashi Kokubun).

Backport changed from 3.2: WONTFIX, 3.3: DONE, 3.4: REQUIRED to 3.2: WONTFIX, 3.3: DONE, 3.4: DONE

ruby_3_4 commit:ca1ea9578485c27daac1e16107cb48551a58d8ad.

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Bug #21340: Bump autoconf version to properly handle C23 bool/stdbool defines
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/21340#change-114035

* Author: christo (Chris Alberti)
* Status: Closed
* ruby -v: 3.4.3, 3.5.0, any built with GCC 15 (so C23)
* Backport: 3.2: WONTFIX, 3.3: DONE, 3.4: DONE
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Right now if I install a recent release using rbenv or asdf, or manually download the latest release 3.4.3 or the preview 3.5.0, the included `./configure` seems to have been generated by an old version of autoconf. After running `./configure`, I end up with a `config.h` containing `HAVE__BOOL = 1`, but _not_ containing `HAVE_STD_BOOL_H = 1`.

If I grab the source from github (latest, or 3.4.3 tag) and run autoconf myself (I'm currently on 2.72), I get a config.h with both `HAVE__BOOL = 1` and `HAVE_STD_BOOL_H = 1` defined.

This ends up meaning that in the official releases, Ruby's internal/stdbool.h skips using <stdbool.h> and moves on to defining bool/true/false itself. 

This is not valid as of C23 (which is now default in GCC 15). On my end I found this because I was seeing build failures in the geoip2_compat gem related to issues with the bool type definition on GCC 15. I submitted a patch to the gem's repo for a workaround (include <stdbool.h> before ruby.h), but this might come back to bite other native extension gem compiles as well.

It looks like autoconf was patched to fix the HAVE_STD_BOOL_H define for C23 in [this commit](https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf.git;a=commitdiff;h=6dcecb780a69bd208088d666b299e92aa7ae7e80;hp=f6657256a37da44c987c04bf9cd75575dfca3b60). 

I can tell that the ./configure included in the official ruby releases was created with an older version of autoconf because I still see the line:
```
Check for stdbool.h that conforms to C99
```
rather than the updated version (which appears in my ./configure created with autoconf 2.72)
```
Check for stdbool.h that conforms to C99 or later
```

I'd happily submit a PR if the setup around packaging the official releases is public and someone can point me to it! I wasn't able to find it on a quick search.

---Files--------------------------------
config.h_GCC14 (14.7 KB)
config.h_GCC15 (14.7 KB)


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