From: Albert Chin <ruby-core@...>
Date: 2006-03-29T09:58:28+09:00
Subject: Re: 1.8.4 on HP-UX/IA64

On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 07:44:47AM +0900, Albert Chin wrote:
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?

Seems the latest snapshot has a fix. Backporting it seems like a lot
of work. I tried the patch at
http://homepage1.nifty.com/~tetsu/ruby/diary/0409.html#22 with the HP
C compiler but it errors with:
  /opt/build/ruby-1.8.4/lib/optparse.rb:1397:in `visit': stack level too deep (SystemStackError)
        from /opt/build/ruby-1.8.4/lib/optparse.rb:1396:in `visit'
        from /opt/build/ruby-1.8.4/lib/optparse.rb:1416:in `search'
        from /opt/build/ruby-1.8.4/lib/optparse.rb:1155:in `make_switch'
        from /opt/build/ruby-1.8.4/lib/optparse.rb:1092:in `make_switch'
        from /opt/build/ruby-1.8.4/lib/optparse.rb:1212:in `define'
        from /opt/build/ruby-1.8.4/lib/optparse.rb:1216:in `on'
        from ./ext/extmk.rb:224:in `parse_args'
        from /opt/build/ruby-1.8.4/lib/optparse.rb:815:in `initialize'
        from ./ext/extmk.rb:211:in `parse_args'
        from ./ext/extmk.rb:280
  gmake: *** [all] Error 1
      error: error executing script

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albert chin (china@thewrittenword.com)