Hi,

In message "Re: Ruby for AIX 5.2?"
    on 03/12/23, "Luke A. Kanies" <luke / madstop.com> writes:

|The solution I'm providing works on AIX 5.1, and I expect on 5.2, also.
|
|I promised matz a bug report, but I have not yet filed it (bad luke!).

I have no way to confirm, but does this patch fix the problem?

--- /tmp/ruby-1.8.1/configure	2003-12-22 18:27:43.000000000 +0900
+++ configure	2003-12-23 17:35:50.000000000 +0900
@@ -13615,3 +13615,3 @@
 			DLDFLAGS="$DLDFLAGS "'-brtl -eInit_$(TARGET) -bI:$(topdir)/ruby.imp -bM:SRE -T512 -H512 -lc'
-			LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -brtl"
+			: LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -brtl"
 			: ${ARCHFILE="ruby.imp"}