From: Matt Lawrence <matt@...>
Date: 2004-06-25T13:06:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Building Ruby on AIX -- again

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:

> > It's really long.  After going through the log, it looks like configure is 
> > trying to link against libm, which doesn't exist.  My guess is that 
> > configure needs to be told what the correct library is.
> 
> libm really doesn't exist?  Then where are math functions?

Ok, I'm an idiot.  I needed to install the bos.adt.* packages.  Hopefully 
somebody else will find this message in the archives and avoid looking 
like a fool.  

Now I'm down to this error:

compiling iconv
        gcc -g -O2  -I. -I/usr/src/ruby-1.8.1 -I/usr/src/ruby-1.8.1 
-I/usr/src/ruby-1.8.1/ext/iconv -DHAVE_ICONV_H -DICONV_INPTR_CAST="(char 
**)" -I/usr/include -c iconv.c
        /usr/ccs/bin/ld -brtl -eInit_iconv 
-bI:/usr/src/ruby-1.8.1/ruby.imp -bM:SRE -T512 -H512 -lc  
-L"/usr/src/ruby-1.8.1" -L"/usr/local/lib" -o iconv.so iconv.o  -ldl 
-lcrypt -lm   -lc
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .iconv_open
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .iconv_close
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .iconv
ld: 0711-345 Use the -bloadmap or -bnoquiet option to obtain more 
information.
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 8.

-- Matt
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