From: MenTaLguY <mental@...>
Date: 2006-03-23T12:52:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on HP-UX

libcrypto is provided by openssl, yes

iconv _should_ be provided by your OS's libc, but as I recall HP-UX's is
present but broken (HP has a distressing habit of implementing things
just enough to pass a naive configure test).  You can get a portable
iconv replacement for Ruby to use here:

 http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/

If I remember correctly, the list of essential libraries is something
like (in no particular order):

 - zlib
 - libgdbm
 - libiconv
 - ncurses
 - readline
 - openssl

I think there's one more I'm forgetting, but I can't find my notes just
now.  It'll be pretty obvious if you're still missing one, though.

Make sure that these are all available as either shared libraries, or
(failing that) that they were at least built as position-independent
code.  Otherwise the HP-UX dynamic linker will choke at runtime because
it can't relocate the static objects HP's linker blindly imports into
shared libraries.

See my old post that I linked to for more details and other tweaks that
need to be made to specific libraries for HP-UX.

-mental