From: nesius <nesius@...>
Date: 2004-09-01T11:42:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Followup on HPUX build issue


Whoops.  Please change this line:
> performs its link with CFLAGS or LDFLAGS, I have to do
To:
> performs its link without CFLAGS or LDFLAGS, I have to do
                    ^^^^^^^

-Rob

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, nesius wrote:

>
> Thanks, I will try that out.
>
> There are some other problems with the ruby build you should
> know about.
>
> First off, the link is not given CFLAGS or LDFLAGS, so I
> must set CC to not only define the compiler, but define
> all of the other flags I need during the link.  I need
> to pass in mainly directives to find shared libraries
> because my shared libraries do not exist in paths that
> exist in ldso.conf.
>
> So, because my libraries are not found by the system, and ruby
> performs its link with CFLAGS or LDFLAGS, I have to do
> something ugly like this:
>
> -----
> # This one rejects CFLAGS and LDFLAGS during link, and links with CC
> # So, I'm putting CFLAGS into CC
> export CC="$CC $CFLAGS"
> -----
>
> This also causes problems when trying to build a 64-bit ruby on
> HPUX 11.00 because if +DA2.0W is not seen on the command line
> when performing a link the ansi c compiler will invoke
> the 32-bit linker.  CFLAGS or LDFLAGS (preferably the later)
> really should be sent in with the link.
>
> Also, the ruby build on HPUX falsy detects several other
> libraries.  Here is some perl in my little build script
> that, after the configure, removes these false lib
> dependencies.  Note, that the problem you gave me a
> patch for cannot be fixed in this manner because the Makefile
> with the problem is not generated until runtime, and we
> could not figure out where we needed to jump in and
> change the meta-build infrastructure.
>
> Here's the perl:
>     perl -pe 's/\-ltinfo//g ; s/\-lsocket/-lnsl/g ; s/\-lsun//g ; s/\-lutil//g
> ; s/\-DHAVE_OPENPTY//g' -i.bak `find . -name Makefile`
> ### This points to more bad configure checks?  Note, on HPUX the symbols found
> lin -lsocket are really found in -lnsl.
>
>     perl -pe 's/have_library\("tinfo", "tgetent"\) or have_library\("termcap",
> "tgetent"\)//g' -i ext/curses/extconf.rb
> ### We couldn't find these libs on HPUX.  They don't seem to be in ncurses.
>     perl -pe 's/have_library\("sun", "getpwnam"\)//g' -i ext/etc/extconf.rb
> ### Not sure what is firing -lsun in configure.
>     perl -pe 's/have_library\("socket", "socket"\)/have_library("nsl",
> "socket")/g' -i ext/openssl/extconf.rb
> ### -lsocket -> -lnsl
>
> Any sort of patching you can do to make this build go more
> smoothly on HPUX is greatly appreciated.  I'm very thankful
> for the patch you gave me so far.  I'm very happy to test
> anything out you'd like me to test.  Since you've fixed one
> problem I figured I'd report the rest that we found.  I think
> this covers all of the HP-UX and non-hpux issues that we found.
>
> -Rob
>
>
>
> On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > At Wed, 1 Sep 2004 05:55:10 +0900,
> > nesius wrote in [ruby-talk:111144]:
> > > The test is:
> > > $CC -o conftest $CFLAGS -lutil -E conftest.c
> > >
> > > -E tells both gcc and ansic to dump the pre-processor output.
> > > gcc interprets -o as a directive to dump the output into conftest.
> > > /opt/ansic/bin/cc, when it sees -E, does not understand -o.
> > > it just dumps the output to stdout.   A better way to do this
> > > when using ansic is to use the '-P' directive, like so:
> > > $CC $CFLAGS -P conftest.c.  The preprocessor output will
> > > be put into conftest.i.
> >
> > Thank you, I got it.  RUBY_CPPOUTFILE in configure.in seems not
> > to be working.
> >
> > Try this patch with deleting config.cache file.
> >
> >
> > Index: configure.in
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /cvs/ruby/src/ruby/configure.in,v
> > retrieving revision 1.245
> > diff -u -2 -p -r1.245 configure.in
> > --- configure.in	30 Aug 2004 06:16:29 -0000	1.245
> > +++ configure.in	1 Sep 2004 01:31:31 -0000
> > @@ -23,4 +23,5 @@ AC_DEFUN(RUBY_CPPOUTFILE,
> >  CPPFLAGS='-o conftest.i'
> >  AC_TRY_CPP([], rb_cv_cppoutfile=yes, rb_cv_cppoutfile=no)
> > +test -f conftest.i || rb_cv_cppoutfile=no
> >  CPPFLAGS=$cppflags
> >  rm -f conftest*])
> >
> >
> > --
> > Nobu Nakada
> >
> >
>
>