From: raja@... (Raja S.)
Date: 2000-12-18T03:40:05+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7513] Re: building ruby on an SGI

raja@cs.indiana.edu (Raja S.) writes:

>Has anyone successuflly built Ruby on an SGI under Irix?
> snip ...[description of installation problems under Irix]

I tried hand patching a few of the .c files but it started getting out of
hand.  Finally I took a "config.h" generated for a Sparc10/solaris2.7
architecture and tried it unde Irix.  I needed to add a :

#define vfork fork

to the solaris 2.7 "config.h" and then it compiled (though SGI's cc
generated a ton of warnings).

Bottom line: ruby finally compiled under Irix and 'make test' seems to have
run successfully.  

But ... things shouldn't be this hard ...  either there is something
abnormal with my environment or the 'configure' script needs an update.

If anyone else has experience installing ruby under Irix (or an idea of what
the problem may be) please drop me a line.

Thanks,
Raja