From: "Overdorf, Sam" <sam.overdorf@...>
Date: 2006-03-29T11:28:30+09:00
Subject: Re: 1.8.4 on HP-UX/IA64

I had some trouble compiling on my ia64 although it was not the same
problem.
I got rid of my problem by doing the following:

> matz.
> 
> p.s.
> To IA64 users: it is reported that you need to change optimize flag to
"-O0" to compile on IA64 machines.
>

Sam Overdorf


-----Original Message-----
From: Albert Chin [mailto:ruby-core@mlists.thewrittenword.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 4:58 PM
To: ruby-core@ruby-lang.org
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

-- 
albert chin (china@thewrittenword.com)