From: doug.hendricks@... (the_rev_dharma_roadkill)
Date: 2003-07-25T07:36:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Build crash of preview3 on alpha/osf5.1 AND POSSIBLE FIX

matz@ruby-lang.org (Yukihiro Matsumoto) wrote in message news:<1059024003.511102.21055.nullmailer@picachu.netlab.jp>...
> 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.

Preview4 works for me!  With no changes!  Many thanks, matz.  I still
get some disturbing compiler warnings, but the self-test and my (very
small) test works fine.  I will post a very small summary of the
compiler warnings in another thread.

Doug