From: nobu@... Date: 2015-01-09T01:50:34+00:00 Subject: [ruby-core:67443] [ruby-trunk - Bug #10716] Erroneous semicolon after AC_CASE Issue #10716 has been updated by Nobuyoshi Nakada. Vit Ondruch wrote: > BTW I am wondering why Ruby actually enforces autoconf 2.67 and makes plenty of RHEL 6/CentOS 6 users [1] unnecessary issues, when it builds with 2.63 just fine. If there was some justification at least [2]. Because we wanted to skip autoconf 2.64 and 2.66 but `AC_PREREQ()` can't skip them but allow 2.63. ---------------------------------------- Bug #10716: Erroneous semicolon after AC_CASE https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/10716#change-50872 * Author: Vit Ondruch * Status: Open * Priority: Normal * Assignee: * Category: * Target version: * ruby -v: ruby 2.2.0p0 (2014-12-25 revision 49005) [x86_64-linux-gnu] * Backport: 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: REQUIRED, 2.2: REQUIRED ---------------------------------------- This is issue when building with autoconf 2.63 available in RHEL6/CentOS6 BTW I am wondering why Ruby actually enforces autoconf 2.67 and makes plenty of RHEL 6/CentOS 6 users [1] unnecessary issues, when it builds with 2.63 just fine. If there was some justification at least [2]. [1] https://www.google.cz/search?q=ruby+Autoconf+version+2.67+or+higher+is+required [2] https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/ecb9b98774b01b2eff22fe4a9832ce469f3552e8 ---Files-------------------------------- 0001-Remove-superfluous-semicolon.patch (949 Bytes) -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/