[DRE-maint] Bug#1006471: ruby3.0: reproducible builds: embeds path to various binaries

[Antonio Terceiro]

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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