Hi all,

Solaris 9
gcc 3.3
Ruby 1.8 preview 6 (latest as of 31-Jul-2003)
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.54
Tried both Sun and GNU make/ld/as

I'm having some sort of configuration issue with Ruby 1.8 (latest
preview) as it relates to the large file compilation environment. Any
attempt to include sys/procfs.h in an extension results in this error:

/usr/include/sys/procfs.h:44:2: #error "Cannot use procfs in the large
file compilation environment"

The relevant lines from procfs.h

#if !defined(_LP64) && _FILE_OFFSET_BITS == 64
#error "Cannot use procfs in the large file compilation environment"
#endif

Of note:

>getconf LFS_CFLAGS
-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64

The only way I can get an extension to build with procfs.h is with the
-m64 option, but then that causes ELFCLASS errors because I didn't
build Ruby as 64 bit (and I haven't been able to - help wanted in that
regard as well). The only way I saw around this was to disable
largefile support. That doesn't seem ideal (and I wasn't sure what
other issues that might cause).

This issue did not arise with Ruby 1.6.8. I'm not sure if this is a
simple tweak to the configure script or something more in depth.

The release of Ruby 1.8 is slated for sometime around August 5th and I
was hoping to get this resolved before then. Any and all help is
greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,

Daniel Berger