From: Thomas Andersson <zeroth@...>
Date: 2004-03-06T22:11:20+09:00
Subject: Re: GCC 3.3.3 and Ruby 1.8.0 and 1.8.1

Brett Williams wrote:
> We recently upgraded to GCC 3.3.3 and now we can no longer compile ruby 
> due to its use of some obsoleted constructs.
> 
> Apparently GCC no longer supports <varargs.h>, and code should be 
> revised to use <stdarg.h>
> 
> Not knowing anything about it, is there a good workaround?
> 
> Will this be changed in future versions of Ruby so that it will play 
> nice with the latest GCC?
> 

Some time ago I backported a old version of ruby (1.0 something) to gcc 
3.3. I had the same problem (varargs.h). It wasn't all that hard to fix 
actually. You can take a look at my patch for some pointers. It's at 
http://zeroth.zapto.org/diff-ruby-1.0-971225-gcc-3.3-fix. Then you just 
write up a patch and send in :)

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Zeroth