Hi,

In message <4404DBFD.6090205@eq.cz>
	on Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:25:49 +0100,
	rudolf <netbsd@eq.cz> wrote:
> in order to get the socket extension for ruby from pkgsrc on Slackware 
> Linux I have to change the pkgsrc/lang/ruby18-base/Makefile:
...
> There is no need to do this on NetBSD and I don't need to do this when 
> compiling ruby on Slackware directly (without pkgsrc) either. Could this 
> point to some problems with the tools?
Thanks for your report.  Though I don't know which Linux distributions
have this problem, I've just add work around for it; just added
--enable-wide-getaddrinfo to CONFIGURE_ARGS on Linux.

Best regards.

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Takahiro Kambe <taca@back-street.net>