From: Jamis Buck <jamis@37signals.com>
Date: 2005-04-24T11:12:04+09:00
Subject: Re: RUBY port to HPUX 64-bit PA-RISC 11.11

On Apr 23, 2005, at 6:30 PM, nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:

> Hi,
>
> At Sat, 23 Apr 2005 10:28:44 +0900,
> Jamis Buck wrote in [ruby-talk:139454]:
>> 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
>
> How does it fail?
>

The thread documenting my efforts begins here: 
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/115767. 
Basically, the miniruby bootstrapping interpreter is built fine, but 
then the build dies with a core dump inside of the Shellwords module 
(or another one--it usually died in Shellwords for me, but it died in 
others on occassion).

- Jamis