Building Erlang 23 freezes on macOS

[eproxus]

If I try to build 23.3.4.18 on macOS Ventura 13.2 it freezes when patching configure.in at this point: https://github.com/kerl/kerl/blob/master/kerl#L768

If I check the build log at $KERL_HOME/builds/my_build_23.3.4.18/otp_build_23.3.4.18.log it only shows this text:

patching file 'erts/configure.in'
Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected!  Assume -R? [y] 

As far as I can tell, that patch is already in OTP 23 (see the list of tags here erlang/otp@4b0467c).

In fact, it even seems that the configure scripts are checked in for OTP 23 so maybe KERL_USE_AUTOCONF=1 shouldn't be used at all?

[paulo-ferraz-oliveira]

Hey.

Yeah, I though about that in the past (that the configure scripts are checked in, and the option might be deprecated by this time around). Care to pull request removing the interesting bits 😄? CI should be able to tell us if stuff's as it should.

Cheers.

[eproxus]

If I look at the OTP commit it seems it is in 23.1+, but not e.g. 23.0. I guess there's no easy way to do that test for minor versions in kerl?

[paulo-ferraz-oliveira]

There's something similar here. Does that help?

[electricshaman]

Hilariously, I just noticed I can get past the freeze by hitting enter at the prompt regarding the patch. It's waiting for input, not doing anything. Not ideal for an automated script, but at least the build moves forward.