From: Matt Lawrence <matt@...>
Date: 2005-01-28T08:29:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on AIX?

Ok, the patch didn't seem to work, so I added in a fix that should do the 
same.  I'm not sure if I'm using a version anywhere close to what is being 
worked on, I'm using the 1.8.2 tarball.  For some reason, "make" winds up 
running configure again so that it ends with:

configure: creating ./config.status
         MAKE=make /bin/sh ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
Makefile updated, restart.
make: The error code from the last command is 1.

After running "make" again, it fails with:

          cc -g  -eInit_   main.o dmyext.o libruby-static.a -ldl -lcrypt 
-lm   -o miniruby
ld: 0711-327 WARNING: Entry point not found: Init_
Could not load program ./miniruby:
         The program does not have an entry point or
           the o_snentry field in the auxiliary header is invalid.
Examine file headers with the 'dump -ohv' command.
make: The error code from the last command is 255.


Stop.


The script I use to run this is:

#!/usr/bin/ksh -x

VER="ruby-1.8.2"

rm -rf $VER
rm -rf $HOME/bin/*

tar -xf $VER.tar
cd $VER

cp configure.in configure.in.tmp
sed 's/ARCH_FLAGS/ARCH_FLAG/' <configure.in.tmp >configure.in

./configure --without-gcc --disable-ipv6 --prefix=$HOME

make
make            || exit
make test       || exit
make install    || exit



What should I try next?

-- Matt
Nothing great was ever accomplished without _passion_