From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-07-24T14:17:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Build crash of preview3 on alpha/osf5.1 AND POSSIBLE FIX

Hi,

In message "Build crash of preview3 on alpha/osf5.1 AND POSSIBLE FIX"
    on 03/07/24, the_rev_dharma_roadkill <doug.hendricks@tnzi.com> writes:

|The problem is the line in ext/socket/extconf.rb:
|$CPPFLAGS += " -Dss_family=__ss_family -Dss_len=__ss_len"
|which my system hates.  Comment this line out and everything builds.
|But this line is required for other systems, so I propose this fix:
|we try_link for HAVE_SOCKADDR_STORAGE without the above line first. 
|If it doesn't work, then try again with the line.  Maybe this wouldn't
|work on the supported platforms, but can people check it out?  I'm not
|a ruby source developer, I can't even get to the ruby cvs tree because
|of my company's firewall.
|
|There is probably a much prettier way to do this, but I don't have
|much experience in write multi-platform builds.

I will check this fix in preview4, which is going out several hours
later.  Thank you, Doug.

							matz.