From: Zane Dodson <zdodson@...>
Date: 2004-05-12T14:18:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on AIX 4.3.3

Hi Matt,

On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 01:52:44PM +0900, Matt Lawrence wrote:
| On Wed, 12 May 2004, Zane Dodson wrote:
| 
| > 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.
| 
| I've been poking through the configure scripts and I really have no clue 
| what to modify to make this work.  Hints?

Try invoking configure this way (untested --- I do not have access
to an AIX box):

  ./configure LIBS=-lbsd

(It would also be a good idea to use `nm' to verify that `socket' is
indeed in `libbsd.a'.)

Best regards,

--
Zane Dodson