> On Apr 19, 2006, at 3:59 PM, Weytens, Randy J. wrote:
> >
> > I'm attempting to compile Ruby 1.8.4 on an AIX 5.2 OS.  I'm ran
> > ./configure, then make, and got this error:
> >
> 
> There is an extra -brtl in the Makefile for LDFLAGS under AIX 
> and you  
> need gmake, but those are just the first of the problems you will  
> encounter.
> 
> Its a bit rough getting Ruby to compile on AIX; however, it 
> is possible.
> 
> I put a HOWTO together for it and posted it some weeks ago for the  
> Visual Age for C compiler, but I recently updated it for compilation  
> with gcc, so here is the link again:  http://homepage.mac.com/ 
> cjgibbons/rubyonaixhowto/t1.html
> 
> Hope this helps, let me know if it doesn't work as described.
> 
> Christopher Gibbons

I recently wrote this up too, but in not as much detail. I did however,
include the errors that I hit along the way, and the changes that I had
to make to overcome those errors, so if you hit another error message
you might figure out what you missed out on:

http://jroller.com/page/soxbox