Marcin Wisnicki wrote: > On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:02:38 -0500, Josh Paetzel wrote: >> On Thursday 01 November 2007 04:04:35 pm lemon wrote: >>> [0] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2005- > January/019352.html >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2006- > March/030691.html >> If it's any consolation, I've emailed the ruby maintainer a few times >> about why disabling threads in the port's menu doesn't *really* disable >> threads and have never gotten a reply. > > As explained in abovementioned links, some of ruby extensions need > pthreads but since shared modules on freebsd are never linked with > threading libraries (i think it might no longer be true in releng7/ > current), you have no other choice than to link ruby interpreter binary > with libpthread.
Thanks, that's much clearer for me now. I guess I'm lucky - I've yet to hit anything involved in our RoR app that breaks a pthread-less ruby18 on 6.2-R. Even better if the problem's gone away on 7.x. Cheers for all the responses. Regards, l. _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
