[ruby-core:85624] Re: Why require autoconf 2.67+

Vit, thank you!

In this case I may just have to accept that if I want to run Ruby-Dev
I will need to update other things as well. It is a good learning time
for me.

Leam

On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 6:15 AM, V鱈t Ondruch <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Actually, the snippet helps with Ruby 2.4, Ruby 2.5 renamed configure.in
> to configure.ac, but it might be similar hopefully.
>
>
> V鱈t
>
>
> Dne 18.2.2018 v 12:12 V鱈t Ondruch napsal(a):
>> This could help you to build Ruby with older autoconf (2.63 is default
>> on RHEL/CentOS 6):
>>
>> ~~~
>> # Allow to use autoconf 2.63.
>> sed -i '/AC_PREREQ/ s/(.*)/(2.62)/' configure.in
>>
>> # AS_FOR is not supported on RHEL6, inject our own version.
>> cat >> acinclude.m4 <<\EOF
>> m4_ifndef([AS_FOR], [
>>   m4_define([AS_FOR], [
>>     m4_pushdef([$1], [$$2])
>>     for $2 in $3; do
>>       $4
>>     done
>>     m4_popdef([$1])
>>   ])
>> ])%endif
>>
>> EOF
>>
>> sed -i '/AS_FUNCTION_DESCRIBE/ s/^/#/' configure.in
>> sed -i '/AS_FUNCTION_DESCRIBE/ s/^/#/' acinclude.m4
>> ~~~
>>
>>
>> V鱈t
>>
>> 2018-02-17 13:46 GMT+01:00 leam hall <[e-mail]>:
>>> Please pardon the intrusion; I am new to Ruby and like to pull the
>>> development version of Ruby to compile and code with.
>>>
>>> On 8 Feb 18 (US/Eastern) I pulled the code from GitHub and Ruby
>>> 2018-02-09 trunk 62326 compiled fine and all tests except for some
>>> timezone ones passed.
>>>
>>> Today I pulled the source again. The configure step worked well but make failed:
>>>
>>>   configure.ac:7: error: Autoconf version 2.67 or higher is required
>>>   configure.ac:7: the top level
>>>   autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 63
>>>   make: *** [configure] Error 63
>>>
>>> In configure.ac line 7:
>>>
>>>   AC_PREREQ(2.67)
>>>
>>> If I changed 2.67 to 2.63 which is what my server has, the make
>>> configure step fails with:
>>>
>>>   ./configure: line 674: syntax error near unexpected token `colorize_result,'
>>> .  /configure: line 674: `AS_FUNCTION_DESCRIBE(colorize_result, MSG,
>>> Colorize result)'
>>>
>>> I tried commenting out the lines it complained about but that led to
>>> an "unexpected token 'fi'" error on line 76907. Commented that out but
>>> then hit:
>>>
>>>   ./configure: line 77563: syntax error near unexpected token `opt,'
>>>
>>> At this point I do not know if it is better to follow the path and try
>>> to see what the difference is or just ask. If I change things then the
>>> next pull breaks the changes. So I decided to ask.
>>>
>>> Thank you .
>>>
>>> Leam
>>>
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