Issue #4235 has been updated by Stephen Bannasch.
I ran: 'make test' in the src directory created when rvm used git clone on the trunk branch and everything passed.
I still think removing the svn keywords would be good but I would change the priority of this ticket to low.
[ruby-head (trunk)]$ pwd
/Users/stephen/.rvm/src/ruby-head
[ruby-head (trunk)]$ ls -l configure
-rwxr-xr-x 1 stephen staff 1062077 Jan 5 18:52 configure
[ruby-head (trunk)]$ make test
sample/test.rb:assignment
...
test_thread.rb ..................................................
PASS all 934 tests
./miniruby -I./lib -I.ext/common ./tool/runruby.rb --extout=.ext -- "./bootstraptest/runner.rb" --ruby="ruby" ./KNOWNBUGS.rb
2011-01-05 22:33:50 -0500
Driver is ruby 1.9.3dev (2011-01-06 trunk 30471) [x86_64-darwin10.5.0]
Target is ruby 1.9.3dev (2011-01-06 trunk 30471) [x86_64-darwin10.5.0]
KNOWNBUGS.rb .
PASS all 1 tests
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