Ruby 1.8.0 on IRIX?

[Ketil Kristiansen]

Has anyone managed to compile ruby 1.8.0 on IRIX?

I'm running IRIX 6.5.21m, and so far my attempts have failed.
If openssl (from the OS distribution - not the SGI freeware package) is
installed, I get lots of "parse error before ..." in
/usr/include/openssl/ocsp.h - this may be a problem with the openssl
include files for all I know.
If I hide the openssl includes, Ruby's openssl extension compiles, but the
socket extension fail miserably with "structure has no member named
'msg_flags'" (in struct msghdr).

I'm using gcc 3.3.

Never had any problems with 1.6.x...


Best regards,
-K

 

[Ketil Kristiansen]

Just a minor correction/addendum:

Never had any problems with 1.6.x...

... until now. It seems some socket-related stuff has changes between IRIX
6.5.15 and 6.5.21, so ruby 1.6.8 also fails to build now.

However, the errors were slight (a change or two in the signatures of one
or two functions) and easily worked around.


-K