From: nobuyoshi nakada <nobuyoshi.nakada@...>
Date: 2005-06-28T12:45:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8.3 preview1 Build Error on AIX 5.2

Hi,

At Tue, 28 Jun 2005 02:29:11 +0900,
Philippe Lucas wrote in [ruby-talk:146569]:
> -A) Configuration error :
> 
> The configure script don't choose the right install program. It chooses the
> ../install-sh.
> In the /usr/bin directory, there are 2 install program (install and
> installbsd). The script must choose "/usr/sbin/installbsd -c"

It is not a stuff of ruby, you should claim it to autoconf
developers instead.  If it is incorporated to newer autoconf,
the problem will be solved.

Or this doesn't work?

  configure INSTALL="/usr/sbin/installbsd -c"

> -B) Can't build the socket extension  for 2 reasons :
> 
>     -B1) The t_open function is in the libxti. So you have to change the
> extconf.rb. Probably one can write something like :
>              when /powerpc-aix[45].*/
>                  test_func = "socket"
>                  have_library("xti", "t_open")
>                   have_library("c","socket")

Thank you the info.

>      -B2) The configuration fails with an IPV6 test. But, i don't use IPV6.
> So I have no idea about this error. In the  attached file, you will find
> mkmf.log.
>             On the screen i have the following messages :
(snip)
> Fatal: --enable-ipv6 is specified, and your OS seems to support IPv6
> feature.
> But your getaddrinfo() and getnameinfo() are appeared to be broken.  Sorry,
> you cannot compile IPv6 socket classes with broken these functions.
> You can try --enable-wide-getaddrinfo.

Have you tried `configure' with the above option, or
--disable-ipv6?

-- 
Nobu Nakada