Hi , Iam new to ruby and compiling ruby-1.8.6 on HPUX11i . Iam not able to compile it on HPUX : Compiled without pthread : Compilation of ruby and gem went smoothly(without pthread), but while installing rails using gem Iam getting the below error: ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError) getaddrinfo: host nor service provided, or not known(SocketError) I found socket.sl is having getaddrinfo undef . After compiling it with getaddrinfo , It asking for thread support. Hence I tried to compile ruby with pthread while compilation Iam struck up with below error: ruby/ruby-1.8.6/lib/shellwords.rb:30:in `shellwords'': Argument must be a string (ArgumentError) from ruby/ruby-1.8.6/lib/optparse/shellwords.rb:6 from ruby/ruby-1.8.6/lib/optparse.rb:350:in `call'' from ruby/ruby-1.8.6/lib/optparse.rb:350:in `conv_arg'' from ruby/ruby-1.8.6/lib/optparse.rb:454:in `parse'' from ruby/ruby-1.8.6/lib/optparse.rb:1259:in `parse_in_order'' from ruby/ruby-1.8.6/lib/optparse.rb:1247:in `catch'' from ruby/ruby-1.8.6/lib/optparse.rb:1247:in `parse_in_order'' from ruby/ruby-1.8.6/lib/optparse.rb:1241:in `order!'' from ruby/ruby-1.8.6/lib/optparse.rb:1332:in `permute!'' from ruby/ruby-1.8.6/lib/optparse.rb:1353:in `parse!'' from ./ext/extmk.rb:258:in `parse_args'' from ./ext/extmk.rb:293 gmake: *** [all] Error 1 Any help in solving above error would be a great help to me. Please let me know can I compile ruby without pthread support. Thanks in advance, Shashi -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---