From: drak@... (Dr AK)
Date: 2003-07-24T00:26:01+09:00
Subject: URGENT: Ruby 1.8 in IBM PowerPC

Hello everybody,

any help is really appreciated!

We tried to compile the latest 1.8 pre-release in a IBM PowerPC (on
which 1.6.8 had already been successfuly compiled and used for a large
project). Unfortunately we bumped into a problem that apparently (as
browsing old messages in the ruby list) keeps coming up every now and
then with new releases:

../mkconfig.rb:42: stack level too deep (SystemStackError)
        from ./mkconfig.rb:30:in `foreach'
        from ./mkconfig.rb:30

The error is reported after issueing ./configure and ./make and while
at the last part of making.

Here are some useful info: 
~/> gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-suse-linux/2.95.3/specs
gcc version 2.95.3 20010319 (2.95.4 CVS + prerelease/franzo/20010912)


XXX2:/n/src/ruby-1.8.0 # head -30 config.log
This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

It was created by configure, which was
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.57.  Invocation command line was

  $ ./configure

## --------- ##
## Platform. ##
## --------- ##

hostname = XXX2
uname -m = ppc
uname -r = 2.4.12
uname -s = Linux
uname -v = #2 Thu Oct 18 14:41:03 GMT 2001

/usr/bin/uname -p = unknown
/bin/uname -X     = unknown

/bin/arch              = ppc
/usr/bin/arch -k       = unknown
/usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown
hostinfo               = unknown
/bin/machine           = unknown
/usr/bin/oslevel       = unknown
/bin/universe          = unknown


Please help! Thank you in advance,
Tasos Koutoumanos, 
Navel -- www.navel.gr