Norm Jacobs wrote:
>
> I finally go a chance to finish tracking this down.  It appears that 
> if the path to your proto area is sized just so, the ruby build will 
> generate a config.status that has
>   S["CFLAGS"]="....."\
>   ""
> in it.  later in the ruby build, ruby appears to generate rbconfig.rb 
> using a combination of their tools and config.status.  The continued 
> line "" in config.status appears to confuse their parser causing an 
> invalid rbconfig.rb to be generated.  Since they use rbconfig.rb for 
> the rest of their build, it goes horribly wrong.  I'm not a ruby god, 
> so it will probably take me a little bit to generate a fix.  In the 
> meantime, you can workaround this (if you run into it) by making your 
> workspace pathname shorter or longer.
Do you know what length of path actually causes the issue? If I can 
recreate it I might be able to get a handle on the issue.

Thanks for looking into this, it seems unlikely that I would have been 
able to recreate this unless I got really (un)lucky.

Amanda

>
> For any ruby gods that want to lend me a clue, the command that 
> generates rbconfig.rb is
>
> $ ./miniruby -I./lib -I.ext/common -I./- -r./ext/purelib.rb  
> ./ext/extmk.rb --make="/usr/ccs/bin/make" --dest-dir=""  
> --extout=".ext"  --mflags=""  --make-flags="" --extension  
> --extstatic  --
>
>    -Norm
>
>
> Norm Jacobs wrote:
>> Amanda Waite wrote:
>>> I've just built Ruby from an SFW workspace on build 122 on x64 and 
>>> it all went ok. I'll run nightly tomorrow. I don't expect a  
>>> negative result so hopefully Norm has some idea.
>>>
>>> Amanda
>>>
>>> Mike Sullivan wrote:
>>>> Amanda Waite wrote:
>>>>> Hi Milan,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm just getting my x64 build system updated and will run some 
>>>>> tests on a clean workspace tomorrow. The problem maybe to do with 
>>>>> the way the build has written it's rbconfig.rb file so the answer 
>>>>> maybe further up in the output from the build.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I've only seen this once, in one of norm's builds, and he claimed to
>>>> have seen it and have a fix somewhere. So it's probably time to hope
>>>> he responds :)
>> I ran across this last week while working on some changes to 
>> standardize the individual component build some.  I have narrowed it 
>> down some, but still haven't had a chance to find the ultimate 
>> cuplrit.  In my case, It works for me when I set ROOT to a proto area 
>> for a workspace without all of my changes.  I have some problems with 
>> my proto area that I am working out.  My workspace has changes to 
>> about 200 of the Makefiles that build SFW bits prior to ruby, so the 
>> net's pretty big right now.  Can you send me a pointer to your system 
>> and the workspace that you are having the problems with.  It may help 
>> me isolate the problem quicker.
>>    -Norm
>>
>>>>
>>>>     Mike
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Milan Jurik wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> /export/home/luser/sfwnv/usr/src/cmd/ruby18/ruby-1.8.7-p72/lib/mkmf.rb:1676:in
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> `dup': can't dup NilClass (TypeError)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> from 
>>>>>> /export/home/luser/sfwnv/usr/src/cmd/ruby18/ruby-1.8.7-p72/lib/mkmf.rb:1676:in
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> `init_mkmf'
>>>>>>
>>>>>> from 
>>>>>> /export/home/luser/sfwnv/usr/src/cmd/ruby18/ruby-1.8.7-p72/lib/mkmf.rb:1736
>>>>>>  
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
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