From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-07-05T03:15:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Port ruby to z/OS UNIX

HaiJun wrote:
> hello,
> 
> I am trying to port ruby to z/OS UNIX. I resolved obvious EBCDIC to
> ASCII problems and I encountered a problem:
> (1) I get a message like below:
> bash-2.03$ gmake
> ./lib/fileutils.rb:1277: [BUG] unexpected local variable
>  (2)I know the message is from eval.c and I add some break points at
> eval.c and try to catch the problem. but I get another message:
> fu_output_message is not a class/module
> 
> I am not sure if it is possible that the stack or the generation of node
> tree has problems.
> 
> Thanks &Regards
> 
> HaiJun
> 

What is "z/OS UNIX"? Is it like Linux? Is it like AIX? My recollection
is the latter, so if someone has experience building Ruby on AIX, they
might have some clues for you.