From: Jamis Buck <jamis@37signals.com>
Date: 2005-04-23T10:28:44+09:00
Subject: Re: RUBY port to HPUX 64-bit PA-RISC 11.11

On Apr 22, 2005, at 1:24 PM, jon.a.miller@dfas.mil wrote:

> -I failed to state for verions 1.8.2.....
>

At my previous job, we ran HPUX 11.x. To my knowledge, there is no 
binary pre-built for Ruby 1.8.2 on HPUX. What is more, if you try to 
build Ruby with pthread support, the build fails mysteriously. This 
means (for example) that you cannot take advantage of the Oracle 
bindings for Ruby on HPUX, because they bind to Oracle, which binds to 
pthread...and Ruby won't load libraries that link pthread, unless it 
has linked pthread itself. (Insert vicious cycle here.)

All in all, it was a very frustrating experience. Fortunately, my new 
job does everything on BSD, which is well supported by Ruby, and MySQL, 
which is also very well supported.

For those of you that are trying to use Ruby on HPUX, you have my 
condolences. :( On the other hand, if you are more of a C guru than 
myself, you might have better luck tracking down the segfaults that 
occurred during the bootstrapping phase of building Ruby on HPUX. If 
you do, your name will be praised by generations of HPUX users to come.

- Jamis