From: Thomas Stromberg <thomas@...>
Date: 2001-10-24T10:58:54+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23132] Ruby on AIX -- ext/socket never compiled?

I'm working on an open-source project (http://tzunami.sourceforge.net), 
that needs an easy way for people to run under AIX. The issue I have is 
two-fold:

    a) no nice package exists for them to install
    b) 1.6.5 & cvs refuse to compile under 4.3.3 with gcc 2.95.2
    c) 1.6.4 skips ext/socket, crucial for the application to work.

Any help on a, b, or c would be *much* appreciated, since I'm trying to 
make a Halloween release.


Here is ruby-cvs & ruby 1.6.5 refuse to compile under AIX 4.3.3 with gcc 
2.95.2:

         gcc -fPIC -g -O2  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H 
-I/data/ruby/ext/digest/rmd160/.. -I/data/ruby -I/data/ruby 
-I/usr/local/include -DHAVE_SYS_CDEFS_H -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H 
-DHAVE_UNISTD_H  -c rmd160.c
cc1: warning: -fPIC ignored for AIX (all code is position independent)
In file included from rmd160.c:23:
rmd160.h:39: syntax error before `void'
In file included from rmd160.c:41:
/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-ibm-
aix4.3.2.0/2.95.3/../../../../powerpc-ibm-
aix4.3.2.0/include/assert.h:30: syntax error before `extern'




But, 1.6.4 compiles just fine.. the problem is, that ext/socket never 
has a Makefile made for it. For good reason too, it just doesn't work, 
even if you hack out a Makefile (albeit, very very crude):

compiling socket
         gcc -fPIC -g -O2 -DHAVE_GETADDRINFO -DHAVE_SA_LEN 
-DHAVE_SOCKADDR_STORAGE -DHAVE_SIN_LEN  -I/data/ruby-1.6.4 
-I/data/ruby-1.6.4 -I/usr/local/include -DHAVE_NETINET_TCP_H 
-DHAVE_NETINET_UDP_H -DHAVE_GETADDRINFO -DHAVE_GETNAMEINFO 
-DHAVE_SYS_UN_H -DHAVE_SOCKET -DHAVE_GETHOSTNAME  
-Dss_family=__ss_family -Dss_len=__ss_len -c socket.c
cc1: warning: -fPIC ignored for AIX (all code is position independent)
socket.c: In function `tcp_s_gethostbyname':
socket.c:920: storage size of `addr' isn't known
socket.c:944: warning: unreachable code at beginning of switch statement
socket.c:986: warning: unreachable code at beginning of switch statement
socket.c: In function `tcp_accept':
socket.c:1084: storage size of `from' isn't known


/ Thomas Stromberg