From: Conrad Schneiker <schneiker@...>
Date: 2000-04-19T20:38:10-05:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:02518] Re: Ruby 1.4.4

From: Dat Nguyen <thucdat@hotmail.com>

> Try to install the latest ruby but failed on AIX 4.3:
>
> $ make
> gcc -g -O2 -I. -I. -I/usr/local/include -c array.c
> In file included from /usr/include/sys/wait.h:45, from
> /usr/include/stdlib.h:212, from ruby.h:23, from array.c:13:
> /usr/include/sys/resource.h:124: parse error before `id_t'
> /usr/include/sys/resource.h:125: parse error before `id_t'
> In file included from /usr/include/stdlib.h:212, from ruby.h:23,
> from array.c:13:
> /usr/include/sys/wait.h:158: parse error before `id_t'
> In file included from array.c:13:
> ruby.h:424: warning: `noreturn' attribute directive ignored
> ruby.h:425: warning: `noreturn' attribute directive ignored
> ruby.h:426: warning: `noreturn' attribute directive ignored
> ruby.h:427: warning: `noreturn' attribute directive ignored
> ruby.h:428: warning: `noreturn' attribute directive ignored
> ruby.h:429: warning: `noreturn' attribute directive ignored
> ruby.h:430: warning: `noreturn' attribute directive ignored
> ruby.h:442: warning: `noreturn' attribute directive ignored
> In file included from ruby.h:555, from array.c:13:
> intern.h:89: warning: `noreturn' attribute directive ignored
> intern.h:93: warning: `noreturn' attribute directive ignored
> intern.h:94: warning: `noreturn' attribute directive ignored
> intern.h:115: warning: `noreturn' attribute directive ignored
> make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.
>
>
> Stop.
>
> Interestingly that except Ckermit, the installation of Perl 5.6 and Python
> 1.6 also failed in similar manner.

If all else fails, you might want to try searching the Perl porters archives
(which I think can be found somewhere on www.perl.com), and maybe posting
this on comp.unix.aix.

Conrad