From: doug.hendricks@... (the_rev_dharma_roadkill)
Date: 2003-07-24T13:31:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Build of 1.8.0 preview3 crashes on alphaev67-osf5.1

Minero Aoki <aamine@loveruby.net> wrote in message news:<20030710105622L.aamine@loveruby.net>...
> Hi,
> 
>   In mail "Build of 1.8.0 preview3 crashes on alphaev67-osf5.1"
>     doug.hendricks@tnzi.com (the_rev_dharma_roadkill) wrote:
> 
> > We run 3 alpha servers running tru64 5.1A (osf 5.1A).  The 1.8.0
> > preview3 default build crashes.  I could not see anything very wrong
> > in defines.h, and 1.6.8 built without this error (it did need a minor
> > fix in [socket].  The make output ends with:
>  
> > compiling Win32API
> > /u13/home/doug/ruby/download/ruby-1.8.0/lib/mkmf.rb:191: [BUG]
> > Segmentation fault
> > ruby 1.8.0 (2003-06-23) [alphaev67-osf5.1]
>  
> > 1)  What is my next step?
> 
> Did you applied my patch?
> If not, please try this:
> 
>   http://i.loveruby.net/archive/ruby-1.8.0-preview3-alphafix.diff.gz
> 
> This patch is already included in CVS repository,
> you will not warried about this problem in the next preview
> (or, 1.8.0 release :-)
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Minero Aoki

The patch isn't enough: my build gets farther but still crashes at an
old sticking point: in ext/socket.
It's because of -D__ss_family ... at the top of the extconf.rb file,
my system hates this line but other platforms require it.
My experimental fix is to try to test HAVE_SOCKADDR_STORAGE without
this line, then add it only if HAVE_SOCKADDR_STORAGE doesn't link.

I will provide this diff in another thread.

Doug