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by Daniel Berger.
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I officially got permission to install the old copy of Forte 6 on my workstation from the boss man, received my license from Sun, and installed it forthwith. My first task was to try and build Ruby with it. No luck.
It chokes on the ossl lib, to say nothing of the boatloads of warnings being emitted prior to that. To be fair, though, many of the warnings appear to stem from Matz's strange insistence on using the old style K&R function declarations.
This is the second time the ossl lib has caused a problem for me. My attempts to build a 64-bit Ruby using gcc also fail on ossl because it tries to link against the 32-bit library for some reason. I think I can solve that one, but solving the issue with ossl and Sun's compiler is another matter.
I'm seriously tempted to fork Ruby, replacing the old K&R function declarations with ANSI declarations, and doing a massive code cleanup in general, including the elimination of all -Wall warnings. I think I'll call it "Sapphire". :)
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