From: Brendan Oakley <gentux2@...>
Date: 2008-09-18T23:37:31+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:18707] Re: Ruby for OS/2 Maintainer

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Hello.

I am reporting back with results on building Ruby on OS/2 (eComStation).

Apparently, Ruby 1.9.0 requires a working Ruby to build. So I have not
gotten very far with it, yet.

Ruby 1.8.7 failed to compile. i did not look at it closely because I
decided to re-try 1.8.6 first.

Ruby 1.8.6 builds, and passes 'make test'. I am attaching a small
patch which updates the compile and link flags for the more recent
toolchain. It should be applicable to the 1.8.7 and 1.9.0 branches as
well.

The problem, and the reason I'd had trouble with rubygems before, is
that the 'ext' libs do not build.

There seem to be some odd general issues with this process. I expected
to be able to comment libs out in setup.emx to skip them, but this had
no effect. I also tried various --disable- switches without any luck.
Am I missing something?

Perhaps to make this work smoother I might need to debug and repair
some of this build process? Some of the strange things I encountered
did not appear necessarily platform-specific.

A friend of mine was able, with some effort, to build the libs
statically into ruby.exe, but then encountered some errors with 'make
test' that needed to be fixed. I am still working on reproducing what
he did. He was able to fix much of it, so when complete I will provide
a patch for that.

As for threads_.c, it turns out we do have an implementation of
pthreads, so if I understand correctly that should be covered.

So, what remains at this point:

 - Fix issues with 'ext' libs on 1.8.6
 - Correct the process of building the 'ext' libs statically
 - Get 1.8.7 and 1.9.0 branches to compile
 - Work on fixing the results of 'make test-all'.

Please let me know if there is something else I should look at, or if
anything is of particularly high priority, or what else I need to do
so that my efforts prevent the removal of OS/2 from Ruby.

Thanks.
Brendan

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