From: Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@...>
Date: 2006-04-30T00:29:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on 64-bit Linux

Sid Stuart wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I imagine this topic has been covered before, but I have searched and 
> looked through the forum and cannot find any mention of it.
> 
> I need to run Ruby on a 64-bit Fedora Linux System. When I compile  it, 
> I get an error message that says,
> 
>    gcc -g -O2 -DRUBY_EXPORT -I. -I. -c file.c
>    file.c: In function 'chmod_intrnal':
>    file.c:1695: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
> 
> That is a bit worriesome, but when I run make test, it responds that the 
> test succeeded.
> 
> Is anyone else running Ruby on a 64-bit system? Are there any issues?

Hi Sid,

I'm currently running Ruby 1.9, and I've run 1.8, too, on a 64 bit 
Fedora Core 4 system. It's working fine.


Cheers,
Daniel