From: Garance A Drosehn <drosihn@...>
Date: 2006-06-18T13:25:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Compiling AIX 4.3.3 ruby 1.8.4

On 6/17/06, Lanny Rosicky <lanny@canczech.com> wrote:
>
> Now I am struggling with
> ./ext/extmk.rb:168: warning: Insecure world writable dir /tmp, mode
> 0241777

Aside:  you might want to alter your setting for PATH to avoid
any references to /tmp, assuming that won't cause problems
for you.  That will get rid of the above warning that you will
keep seeing...

>         /usr/ccs/bin/ld -brtl -eInit_socket -bI:../../ruby.imp -bM:SRE
> -T512 -H512   -L"../.." -o ../../.ext/powerpc-aix4.3.3.0/socket.so
> socket.o  -ldl -lcrypt -lm   -lc
> ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .CMSG_SPACE
> ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .CMSG_LEN
> ld: 0711-345 Use the -bloadmap or -bnoquiet option to obtain more
> information.
> make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 8.

I built ruby 1.8.4 on our version of AIX 4.3 here at RPI, which
could very well be different than the real AIX 4.3...  :-)

First off, make sure you have the latest version of zlib installed
(version 1.2.3 or better), and that you are certain to pick up that
new version instead of some ancient version that might be
lying around.  I forget what problem comes up if you get the
wrong version, but I do know that I couldn't get ruby to build
when I had the wrong version.

And as the error message says, you can use "-bloadmap" or
"-bnoquiet" on the command that failed, to get a more detailed
error message for whatever is failing.

My notes (to myself) for building on aix43 said:

     Add #ifndef to this definition in config.h...
          #ifndef _ALL_SOURCE
          #define _ALL_SOURCE 1
          #endif
     Apparently have to do the standard plain 'make', then do
     a 'make ruby.imp' and then redo the plain 'make'.  Weird.

I did get ruby itself built without too much trouble, although
I don't seem to have readline hooked up right, so cursor
movements in `irb' don't work as well as I'd like.  I never
looked into that problem, as I don't really need to have irb
working on aix43.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn     =             drosihn@gmail.com
Senior Systems Programmer
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;             Troy, NY;  USA