Ruby for SCO

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1

Yes I have tried that.

The SCO libraries have some compatibility problems.

I Tried finding the "gcc" compiler and libraries but they were not
current enough and had compilation error too.

So I'm kind of wondering if anyone has actually got 1.8.x running yet.

I looked at the www.sco.com site and all I can find there is 1.6.7 which
is too old.

Sam

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-----Original Message-----
From: Gennady Bystritsky [mailto:Gennady.Bystritsky@quest.com]
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 2:19 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: ruby for SCO

Overdorf, Sam wrote:

Does anybody have a copy of ruby-1.8.x that will run on: SCO6
  Unixware 7

Thanks,
Sam

Have you tried to compile it from the source? Any problem with that?
Just in case you do not know how to do it:

gunzip ruby-1.8.5-p12.tar.gz | tar xvf -
cd ruby-1.8.5-p12
./configure
make
su
make install

It will make ruby available as /usr/local/bin/ruby

If you want another location to install ruby in, modify the configure
step with:

./configure --prefix=/location/that/you/prefer

Then after "make install" ruby will be available as
/location/that/you/prefer/bin/ruby

Gennady.

2

Overdorf, Sam wrote:

Yes I have tried that.

The SCO libraries have some compatibility problems.

I Tried finding the "gcc" compiler and libraries but they were not
current enough and had compilation error too.

Well, this WILL be a pain, but it sounds as if the only real
alternative you have would be to download all the sources needed to
compile a recent version of gcc, maybe 3.4.6. You will need many
supporting source packages, like bintools. You can get gcc 3.4.6 source
code by following the links at GCC 3.4 Release Series - GNU Project . According
to their web page they managed to build gcc on SCO OpenServer 5.0.6.
YMMV (and probably will).

I assume you DO have some sort of vanilla SCO C compiler available,
such as the cc command? Or maybe even c89 (less likely). I believe
that's all you should need (plus the supporting tools, which you will
probably also have to compile) to build gcc from the C sources. I did
build gcc myself a year or two ago.

If you have no working C compiler at all, well, that gets a bit tricky
:slight_smile:

3

Thanks for the suggestion.
It sounds like I have my work cut out for me.
Sam

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-----Original Message-----
From: efine145-nospam01@usa.net [mailto:efine145-nospam01@usa.net]
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 8:20 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: ruby for SCO

Overdorf, Sam wrote:

Yes I have tried that.

The SCO libraries have some compatibility problems.

I Tried finding the "gcc" compiler and libraries but they were not
current enough and had compilation error too.

Well, this WILL be a pain, but it sounds as if the only real
alternative you have would be to download all the sources needed to
compile a recent version of gcc, maybe 3.4.6. You will need many
supporting source packages, like bintools. You can get gcc 3.4.6 source
code by following the links at GCC 3.4 Release Series - GNU Project . According
to their web page they managed to build gcc on SCO OpenServer 5.0.6.
YMMV (and probably will).

I assume you DO have some sort of vanilla SCO C compiler available,
such as the cc command? Or maybe even c89 (less likely). I believe
that's all you should need (plus the supporting tools, which you will
probably also have to compile) to build gcc from the C sources. I did
build gcc myself a year or two ago.

If you have no working C compiler at all, well, that gets a bit tricky
:slight_smile:

4

Overdorf, Sam wrote:

Thanks for the suggestion.
It sounds like I have my work cut out for me.
Sam

From: efine145-nospam01@usa.net [mailto:efine145-nospam01@usa.net] Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 8:20 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: ruby for SCO

Overdorf, Sam wrote:
  

Yes I have tried that.

The SCO libraries have some compatibility problems.

I Tried finding the "gcc" compiler and libraries but they were not
current enough and had compilation error too.

Well, this WILL be a pain, but it sounds as if the only real
alternative you have would be to download all the sources needed to
compile a recent version of gcc, maybe 3.4.6. You will need many
supporting source packages, like bintools. You can get gcc 3.4.6 source
code by following the links at GCC 3.4 Release Series - GNU Project . According
to their web page they managed to build gcc on SCO OpenServer 5.0.6.
YMMV (and probably will).

I assume you DO have some sort of vanilla SCO C compiler available,
such as the cc command? Or maybe even c89 (less likely). I believe
that's all you should need (plus the supporting tools, which you will
probably also have to compile) to build gcc from the C sources. I did
build gcc myself a year or two ago.

If you have no working C compiler at all, well, that gets a bit tricky
:slight_smile:

I once did a full toolset build of GCC and friends on Tru64 UNIX -- I can poke around and see if I still have the scripts. Essentially, IIRC the first thing you need to build is GNU make, then the core tools and bin tools, then gcc itself. Finally, you put the whole enchilada at the head of your PATH and build applications, like Ruby. The GNU "configure" program should be able to work things out for you unless SCO, in their infinite nastiness, has put things into their code to thwart you.

BTW my scripts also built Perl -- do you need that too?

Ed ("There's no business like SCO business") Borasky

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-----Original Message-----

--
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, FBG, AB, PTA, PGS, MS, MNLP, NST, ACMC(P)
http://borasky-research.blogspot.com/

If God had meant for carrots to be eaten cooked, He would have given rabbits fire.

5

Don't need perl SCO has a current version of that.
I would appreciate taking a peek at your Tru64 stuff.
Thanks,
Sam

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-----Original Message-----
From: M. Edward (Ed) Borasky [mailto:znmeb@cesmail.net]
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 10:47 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: ruby for SCO

Overdorf, Sam wrote:

Thanks for the suggestion.
It sounds like I have my work cut out for me.
Sam

-----Original Message-----
From: efine145-nospam01@usa.net [mailto:efine145-nospam01@usa.net]
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 8:20 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: ruby for SCO

Overdorf, Sam wrote:
  

Yes I have tried that.

The SCO libraries have some compatibility problems.

I Tried finding the "gcc" compiler and libraries but they were not
current enough and had compilation error too.

Well, this WILL be a pain, but it sounds as if the only real
alternative you have would be to download all the sources needed to
compile a recent version of gcc, maybe 3.4.6. You will need many
supporting source packages, like bintools. You can get gcc 3.4.6

source

code by following the links at GCC 3.4 Release Series - GNU Project . According
to their web page they managed to build gcc on SCO OpenServer 5.0.6.
YMMV (and probably will).

I assume you DO have some sort of vanilla SCO C compiler available,
such as the cc command? Or maybe even c89 (less likely). I believe
that's all you should need (plus the supporting tools, which you will
probably also have to compile) to build gcc from the C sources. I did
build gcc myself a year or two ago.

If you have no working C compiler at all, well, that gets a bit tricky
:slight_smile:

I once did a full toolset build of GCC and friends on Tru64 UNIX -- I
can poke around and see if I still have the scripts. Essentially, IIRC
the first thing you need to build is GNU make, then the core tools and
bin tools, then gcc itself. Finally, you put the whole enchilada at the
head of your PATH and build applications, like Ruby. The GNU "configure"

program should be able to work things out for you unless SCO, in their
infinite nastiness, has put things into their code to thwart you.

BTW my scripts also built Perl -- do you need that too?

Ed ("There's no business like SCO business") Borasky

--
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, FBG, AB, PTA, PGS, MS, MNLP, NST, ACMC(P)
http://borasky-research.blogspot.com/

If God had meant for carrots to be eaten cooked, He would have given
rabbits fire.