From: "Overdorf, Sam" <sam.overdorf@...>
Date: 2007-01-03T02:59:08+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby for SCO

Thanks for the suggestion.
It sounds like I have my work cut out for me.
Sam


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From: efine145-nospam01@usa.net [mailto:efine145-nospam01@usa.net] 
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 8:20 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: ruby for SCO

Overdorf, Sam wrote:
> Yes I have tried that.
>
> The SCO libraries have some compatibility problems.
>
> I Tried finding the "gcc" compiler and libraries but they were not
> current enough and had compilation error too.
>

Well, this WILL be a pain, but it sounds as if the only real
alternative you have would be to download all the sources needed to
compile a recent version of gcc, maybe 3.4.6. You will need many
supporting source packages, like bintools. You can get gcc 3.4.6 source
code by following the links at http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.4/ . According
to their web page they managed to build gcc on SCO OpenServer 5.0.6.
YMMV (and probably will).

I assume you DO have some sort of vanilla SCO C compiler available,
such as the cc command? Or maybe even c89 (less likely). I believe
that's all you should need (plus the supporting tools, which you will
probably also have to compile) to build gcc from the C sources. I did
build gcc myself a year or two ago.

If you have no working C compiler at all, well, that gets a bit tricky
:)