From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2004-11-18T10:48:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Can't Build Ruby 1.8.1 on HP-UX 11.00

Hi,

At Wed, 17 Nov 2004 06:54:17 +0900,
Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote in [ruby-talk:120582]:
> |have_library: checking for tgetent() in -ltinfo... -------------------- yes
> |
> |"gcc -o conftest -I/temp/ruby/ruby-1.8.1 -I/temp/ruby/ruby-1.8.1  -g -O2
> |conftest.c  -L"/temp/ruby/ruby-1.8.1" -L"/usr/local/lib"    -E    -lruby-sta
> |tic -ltinfo  -ldld -lcrypt -lm   -lc"
> 
> "-E" is the reason.  But I have no idea how it sneaks in linking
> arguments.  Show us rbconfig.rb then.

-E came from DLDFLAGS, and it has been removed from TRY_LINK in
lib/mkmf.rb.  Recent stable snapshots shouldn't have the problem.

-- 
Nobu Nakada