[ruby-core:62691] [ruby-trunk - Bug #9840] [Third Party's Issue] [darwin] configure script fails if an empty file named `Info.plist` exists in the user's home directory

Issue #9840 has been updated by Nobuyoshi Nakada.

Status changed from Open to Third Party's Issue

Why not remove the invalid file?

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Bug #9840: [darwin] configure script fails if an empty file named `Info.plist` exists in the user's home directory
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9840#change-46817

* Author: patrick ellis
* Status: Third Party's Issue
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: cruby-mac
* Category: platform/darwin
* Target version: 
* ruby -v: ruby 2.1.2p95 (2014-05-08 revision 45877) [x86_64-darwin13.0]
* Backport: 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN
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On OS X 10.9.2, the ruby-2.1.2 configure script fails if an empty file named `Info.plist` exists in the user's home directory.

**Steps to reproduce:**

~~~
#!/usr/bin/env bash

touch ~/Info.plist

[[ -f ruby-2.1.2.tar.gz ]] || curl --fail -o ruby-2.1.2.tar.gz -L http://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.1/ruby-2.1.2.tar.gz
[[ -d ruby-2.1.2 ]]        || tar xfz ruby-2.1.2.tar.gz

cd ruby-2.1.2

./configure
~~~

The last lines it prints before failing are:

~~~
checking whether LDFLAGS is valid... no
configure: error: something wrong with LDFLAGS=""
~~~

The generated config.log has an error message from `dsymutil` when validating LDFLAGS:

~~~
configure:7100: checking whether LDFLAGS is valid
configure:7113: clang -o conftest -g -O2    conftest.c  >&5
2014-05-14 12:28:59.987 dsymutil[38379:303] There was an error parsing the Info.plist for the bundle at URL Info.plist -- file:///Users/pje/
 The operation couldn’t be completed. (Cocoa error 3840.)
 <CFBasicHash 0x7fda79d013d0 [0x7fff70e21f00]>{type = immutable dict, count = 1,
entries =>
	0 : <CFString 0x7fff70e04e00 [0x7fff70e21f00]>{contents = "NSDebugDescription"} = <CFString 0x7fda79d01390 [0x7fff70e21f00]>{contents = "Cannot parse a NULL or zero-length data"}
}
configure:7113: $? = 0
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h */
| #define PACKAGE_NAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION ""
| #define PACKAGE_STRING ""
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
| #define PACKAGE_URL ""
| #define CANONICALIZATION_FOR_MATHN 1
| #define STDC_HEADERS 1
| #define HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H 1
| #define HAVE_SYS_STAT_H 1
| #define HAVE_STDLIB_H 1
| #define HAVE_STRING_H 1
| #define HAVE_MEMORY_H 1
| #define HAVE_STRINGS_H 1
| #define HAVE_INTTYPES_H 1
| #define HAVE_STDINT_H 1
| #define HAVE_UNISTD_H 1
| #define __EXTENSIONS__ 1
| #define _ALL_SOURCE 1
| #define _GNU_SOURCE 1
| #define _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS 1
| #define _TANDEM_SOURCE 1
| /* end confdefs.h.  */
| 
| int
| main ()
| {
| 
|   ;
|   return 0;
| }
configure:7118: result: no
configure:7120: error: something wrong with LDFLAGS=""
~~~

It looks like `dsymutil` is trying to read this empty plist file and fails multiple times during the configure step. It prints an error message multiple times, but only causes `configure` to fail during the LDFLAGS step, making it hard to debug.

Attached is `config.log`, which was generated from running the above code on my system.

I was able to reproduce this bug for all major ruby versions > 2.0.0.

Just for completeness's sake, here is the output of `brew config` from the my system:

~~~
HOMEBREW_VERSION: 0.9.5
ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew
HEAD: 724a7f84d853e978b694555ee61198c75fe409b1
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /usr/local
HOMEBREW_CELLAR: /usr/local/Cellar
CPU: dual-core 64-bit penryn
OS X: 10.9.2-x86_64
Xcode: 5.1.1
CLT: 5.1.0.0.1.1396320587
Clang: 5.1 build 503
X11: 2.7.5 => /opt/X11
System Ruby: 1.8.7-358
Perl: /usr/bin/perl
Python: /usr/bin/python
Ruby: /usr/bin/ruby
~~~


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config.log (21.1 KB)


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