Hi,

Matz writes:

# In message "[ruby-talk:03639] Re: Ruby 1.4.5"
#     on 00/06/23, Conrad Schneiker <schneik / austin.ibm.com> writes:
#
# |I had no problems building with the vac compiler on AIX 4.3 (except for
the
# |previously reported problem with the link step in ext/tcltklib due to
the
# |missing -brtl option flag).
#
# Thank you for the success report.

You're welcome. Thank you for a new release of Ruby.

# By the way, does your report mean that -brtl is required for making
# tcltklib.so?  Or dynamic library in general?  If so, I'd add -brtl to
# DLDFLAGS as well as LDFLAGS.

I only saw this problem with tcltklib.so. If I understand the documentation
correctly, I think you want -brtl for dynamic libraries in general. (The
documentation also notes that this feature is only supported in
AIX versions 4.2 and later.)

The -brtl flag already shows up in a couple of other places (I think from
a change you made sometime around last December):

....
cc -g -brtl -Wl,-bE:ruby.imp main.o  libruby.a -ldl -lcrypt -lm   -o ruby
....
cc -g -brtl main.o dmyext.o libruby.a -ldl -lcrypt -lm   -o miniruby
compiling Win32API

Conrad Schneiker
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