1.8.4 on HP/UX

[Robert Hicks]

We are running HP/UX 11i at work (or some such). Has anyone using this
OS run into any issues?

Robert

[men...@rydia.net]

Quoting Robert Hicks <sig...@gmail.com>:

> We are running HP/UX 11i at work (or some such). Has anyone using
> this OS run into any issues?

I installed Ruby 1.8.4 on HP-UX 11i once recently. It's entirely
doable, but there are some gotchas.

1. Use GNU make, not HP's make. The latter has weird ideas
about what constitutes "out-of-date".

2. HP only implemented enough of getaddrinfo() to pass the
autoconf tests; if you want a working socket.so, you'll need
to disable ipv6 and wide-getaddrinfo so it uses Ruby's
built-in getaddrinfo() instead.

3. Build all the C libraries which Ruby depends on as shared
libraries -- failing that, at least compile them with
either -fPIC or +z (depending on whether you're using gcc
or c89)

4. Don't use the HP Software Porting Archive's version of
readline; on HP-UX, the dynamic libreadline must be linked
against -lcurses, which they neglected to do. Easiest
thing is probably to start with their patched source
distribution and add -lcurses to the linker options for
the dynamic library in the relevent Makefile.whatever.

5. Disable the C++ bindings for any C libraries you build,
unless you're sufficiently current with your linker patches.

I am hoping someone builds some binary packages soon, so HP-UX
Rubyists don't have to deal with all this themselves. In general
HP-UX is an ugly platform to compile software for.

-mental