From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2007-08-22T08:56:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Failure trying to build Ruby 1.8.6 on HP-UX 11

MenTaLguY wrote:
> If I rememeber correctly from my own attempts to build Ruby on
> HP-UX, one of the issues is that HP's make is broken and
> incorrectly thinks parse.y is out of date, trying to regenerate it
> with HP's yacc, which is also broken.

There's definitely something odd going on, but I managed to build and 
install gperf, which solved it.

> Things generally get much better if you use the GNU toolchain (make,
> bison, gcc) rather than HP's.  But note that you'll still need to
> disable IPv6 support or else the socket library won't actually work
> (because HP's IPv6 support is broken).

Yes, I can't say I'm too impressed with the HP-UX libraries or 
toolchain. Unfortunately, we do have a couple of HP-UX machines at work, 
so I still like to support it when I can.

> Also, make sure that the linker patches are up-to-date, or you may
> run into linker issues down the road.

I hit one already trying to build zlib. :(

Thanks,

Dan