From: Matt Lawrence <matt@...>
Date: 2004-06-26T02:26:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Building Ruby on AIX -- again

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

> Does this patch help?

That patch worked perfectly.  I've been trying to stay with the current 
released version, 1.8.1.  Should I be trying the nightly snapshot instead?

Now I'm back to the problem of the socket library not getting built.  The 
error seems to be:

have_library: checking for t_open() in -lnsl... -------------------- no

"gcc -o conftest -I/usr/src/ruby-1.8.1 -I/usr/src/ruby-1.8.1  -g -O2 
conftest.c
 -L"/usr/src/ruby-1.8.1" -L"/usr/local/lib"   -brtl 
-bI:/usr/src/ruby-1.8.1/ruby
.imp -bM:SRE -T512 -H512     -lruby-static -lnsl  -ldl -lcrypt -lm   -lc"
gcc: `-b' must come at the start of the command line
checked program was:

Ideas?

-- Matt
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