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Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: ruby18-1.8.2_2
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At 11:36 PM -0600 2/21/05, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> wrote:
>
>>I tried this on powerPC, and ruby built fine.  I haven't tested
>>it much, but the things I tested seem to work fine.
>>
>>I tried it on sparc64, and ruby didn't build.  The attempt
>>ended with:
>>
><snip>
>
>Ruby has few '__sparc__' and '__sparc_v9__' in the very few places,
>but none of '__sparc64__'. Are there any chance that it will need
>to add a new define, '__sparc64__', to make ruby works better? I am
>lacking on knowlege of programming, so someone with the programming
>knowledge should take a look at those.
>
>=======================================
># find . -name \* | xargs egrep -l "sparc"
>./work/ruby-1.8.2/config.guess
>./work/ruby-1.8.2/config.sub
>./work/ruby-1.8.2/configure.in
>./work/ruby-1.8.2/defines.h
>./work/ruby-1.8.2/dln.c
>./work/ruby-1.8.2/gc.c
>./work/ruby-1.8.2/doc/ChangeLog-1.8.0
>./work/ruby-1.8.2/ext/digest/sha1/sha1.c
>./work/ruby-1.8.2/configure
>./work/ruby-1.8.2/configure.lineno
>./work/ruby-1.8.2/configure.bak
>=======================================
>
>Looks like about four to five files that need to take a look at.

Hmm.  Note that ruby-1.8.2_1 is installed and working fine on my
sparc64 machine.  Has all that much changed between ruby-1.8.2_1
and ruby-1.8.2_2 ?

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