From: MenTaLguY <mental@...>
Date: 2006-02-05T12:14:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Compile problems with 1.8.4 on HP

On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 04:36 +0900, Jim Freeze wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Ruby 1.8.4 doesn't want to build on my HP machine.

HP's c89 would (probably) do if you feel like shelling out for it.  HP's
bundled cc is severely crippled -- don't bother trying to compile
anything serious with it.

As Matz suggests, I've had best luck with gcc, though there are a number
of caveats.  See ruby-talk #177036:

 http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/177036

-mental