From: Zane Dodson <zdodson@...>
Date: 2004-05-12T12:37:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on AIX 4.3.3

Hi Matt,

On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 11:23:11AM +0900, Matt Lawrence wrote:
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| I just tried that.  Here's what it said:
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| <snip>
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| checking for socket()... no
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| Ideas?  Something missing from the gcc libraries?  Help?

I think it will be necessary to link with libbsd.a to use the BSD
socket functions on AIX.  It looks as though the configure script
did not check that library.

Refer to the AIX version 4.3 Communications Programming Concepts manual.
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/doc_link/en_US/a_doc_lib/aixprggd/progcomc/skt_examps.htm#A299X9b27

Best regards,

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Zane Dodson