Control: tag -1 + pending On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 02:52:47PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > Is the Ruby build intentionally putting EGREP into rbconfig.rb for use by > some other component, or is it just populating that file with everything > that Autoconf happens to have discovered, on the off chance that it > might become necessary at some point? If the latter, then that seems > like it will cause unpredictable action-at-a-distance if Autoconf stops > needing to discover some particular thing (for instance if Autoconf's > maintainers decide that they are only going to support systems where > the first grep in PATH is POSIX.1-2001 compliant, and stop checking for a > possibly-better-quality grep elsewhere).
The later. Thanks for the explanation. This has already been fixed for ruby3.1, and is fixed in git for ruby3.0.
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