Do not regenerate revision.h Ruby's makefile compares the shipped version with the git revision to regenerate revision.h [1], but since we don't include git in buildInputs, this comparison fails and it can't find $(REVISION_H). [1] https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/97a5af62a318fcd93a4e5e4428d576c0280ddbae diff -Naur ruby.old/defs/gmake.mk ruby.new/defs/gmake.mk --- ruby.old/defs/gmake.mk +++ ruby.new/defs/gmake.mk @@ -325,11 +325,9 @@ REVISION_IN_HEADER := $(shell sed -n 's/^\#define RUBY_FULL_REVISION "\(.*\)"/\1/p' $(srcdir)/revision.h 2>/dev/null) REVISION_LATEST := $(shell $(CHDIR) $(srcdir) && git log -1 --format=%H 2>/dev/null) -ifneq ($(REVISION_IN_HEADER),$(REVISION_LATEST)) # GNU make treat the target as unmodified when its dependents get # updated but it is not updated, while others may not. $(srcdir)/revision.h: $(REVISION_H) -endif # Query on the generated rdoc #