From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2005-07-14T17:33:27+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-1.8.2: test.rb: Seg Fault in test_check "exception"

Hi,

In message "Re: ruby-1.8.2: test.rb: Seg Fault in test_check "exception""
    on Thu, 14 Jul 2005 17:10:51 +0900, me2faster@excite.com writes:

|So, what do I specify as the --build="" argument to ./configure in
|order for the Itanium support to be utilized?

The current implementation requires the constant __ia64__ to be
defined on the Itanium processor.  Besides that we need proper
<ucontext.h> and <unwind.h> or __libc_ia64_register_backing_store_base;
 
If you have Boehm's GC or Guile Scheme interpreter run on your
machine, let me know.
							matz.