Jamis Buck
4/23/2005 1:29:00 AM
On Apr 22, 2005, at 1:24 PM, jon.a.miller@dfas.mil wrote:
> -I failed to state for verions 1.8.2.....
>
At my previous job, we ran HPUX 11.x. To my knowledge, there is no
binary pre-built for Ruby 1.8.2 on HPUX. What is more, if you try to
build Ruby with pthread support, the build fails mysteriously. This
means (for example) that you cannot take advantage of the Oracle
bindings for Ruby on HPUX, because they bind to Oracle, which binds to
pthread...and Ruby won't load libraries that link pthread, unless it
has linked pthread itself. (Insert vicious cycle here.)
All in all, it was a very frustrating experience. Fortunately, my new
job does everything on BSD, which is well supported by Ruby, and MySQL,
which is also very well supported.
For those of you that are trying to use Ruby on HPUX, you have my
condolences. :( On the other hand, if you are more of a C guru than
myself, you might have better luck tracking down the segfaults that
occurred during the bootstrapping phase of building Ruby on HPUX. If
you do, your name will be praised by generations of HPUX users to come.
- Jamis