From: Benjohn Barnes <benjohn@...>
Date: 2006-03-23T08:15:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on HP-UX


On 22 Mar 2006, at 22:34, MenTaLguY wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 06:46:28 +0900, "Tim Nordloh"  
> <tnordloh@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'll just wait until some bright-eyed kid gets a version on the HP
>> Software porting archive.
>
> I guess that really means getting correctly built versions of all  
> the relevent libraries on the porting archive first.
>
> Once that were done, building Ruby proper is trivial aside from the  
> usual HP-UX porting tricks like short-circuiting the autoconf test  
> to ignore HP-UX's incompletely implemented getaddrinfo().
>
> Does anyone else on the list care enough for me to pursue this?

I desperately need a version of Ruby that works on HPUX, and I've  
really got very little idea of how to go about getting it to work : 
( - I'm from the happy world of opening my iBook, and "oooh, it's pre- 
installed!", all this needing to download things, tinker with them,  
and build them, is totally alien!

:) If you can get it to work, and you live in London, I'm happy to  
pay in beer :)