On Apr 20, 2006, at 11:42 PM, Daniel Sheppard wrote:

>> 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.
>
> 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
>

We must have been trying to get it to work on AIX at about the same  
time!
And, yes, all those errors look strangely familiar. ;-)

Nice site, BTW.

Christopher Gibbons