From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-12-31T22:39:12+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:8410] Re: Ruby 1.6.2

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:8384] Re: Ruby 1.6.2"
    on 00/12/31, "Conrad Schneiker" <schneik@us.ibm.com> writes:

|However, there is another problem that will take a change to configure, 
|and I'm not sure of how you want to handle it. On the IA64 platform, ld 
|works more like the SCO ld in terms of options (i.e. it is not a port of 
|the AIX ld on the PPC platform). Hence this error:
|
|======================================================
|        /usr/ccs/bin/ld  -brtl -eInit_curses 
|-bI:/driver/tools/src/ruby/ruby-1.6.2/ruby.im
|p -bM:SRE -T512 -H512 -lc -L/driver/tools/src/ruby/ruby-1.6.2  -o 
|curses.so curses.o  -lcu
|rses -ltermcap -lc 
|/usr/ccs/bin/ld: illegal option -- H
|ld: ld [-abmrstvGV] [-defholuyzBILMR argument] file(s) ...
|make: The error code from the last command is 1.

I think you need to update configure.in to support AIX/IA64.
Any information is welcome.

							matz.