Built Ruby under AIX 4.3.3 several times without success, posted here but got no decisive hints, will try your work around. Would this work if I build as user, not as administrator?

Thanks,

Dat

>From: "Tom Smith"

>Reply-To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org

>To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML)

>Subject: Re: Ruby under AIX

>Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 10:10:47 +0900

>Funny you should mention that. I just today compiled 1.6.7 on AIX 4.3.3 with gcc. I was

>getting some stuff from the linker about how it couldn't find libgcc.a and such, but after I

>edited two lines in the configure script to remove the "-brtl" it configured, compiled, and installed fine.

>aix*) LDSHARED='/usr/ccs/bin/ld'

> XLDFLAGS='-Wl,-bE:ruby.imp'

> this one -->> DLDFLAGS='-brtl -eInit_$(TARGET) -bI:$(topdir)/ruby.imp -bM:SRE -T512 -H512 -lc'

>change to -->> DLDFLAGS='-eInit_$(TARGET) -bI:$(topdir)/ruby.imp -bM:SRE -T512 -H512 -lc'

> and this one -->> LDFLAGS="-brtl"

>change to -->> LDFLAGS=""

> rb_cv_dlopen=yes ;;

>They're like 4600 lines down from the top.

>HTH,

>Tom Smith

>abner@austin.rr.com

>"Lyle Johnson" wrote in message news:uan26cis62jcd4@corp.supernews.com...

> > > Is there a version of Ruby for AIX?

> >

> > Probably no precompiled binaries, if that's what you're asking for. But I

> > suspect that the Ruby source code will compile "out of the box" on AIX.

> >