From: Brett Williams <brett_williams@...>
Date: 2005-04-26T05:39:31+09:00
Subject: Re: RUBY port to HPUX 64-bit PA-RISC 11.11

Jamis Buck wrote:
> On Apr 24, 2005, at 9:07 PM, Alexey Verkhovsky wrote:
> 
>> On Apr 23, 2005, at 9:21 PM, nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
>>
>>>>> Sounds like GC issue.  Could you try it with latest snapshot?
>>>>
>>>>
>> Nobu,
>>
>> I had some time to play with HPUX today, and the 1.8 snapshot you 
>> posted works with --enable-pthread !
>>
> 
> Wow, yes, this is fantastic news. I was extremely discouraged by the 
> problems getting Ruby to compile with --enable-pthread on HPUX. 
> Thank-you, Nobu! If I'm ever near an HPUX machine again, I'll certainly 
> be installing Ruby on it. ;)

Not sure how useful this is, but we've been using HPUX 11.11i with ruby 
for quite some time with pthreads enabled.  It does require hacking up
some makefiles to add -lpthread when linking, but that's the only change.

Note that we don't use Oracle so I don't know if our builds would've 
worked with that extension.

Every release of ruby requires a bit of tweaking for 64-bit support on 
HPUX.  There are also some things (too many files open problems?) that 
crop up regardless of our efforts.  Since we're phasing out our HPUX I 
just haven't had the bandwidth to address it again, especially given the 
dearth of ruby HPUX users out there.

FWIW, this is with gcc 3.3.3.