On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 15:19:56 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > AFAICT, if you have a global "tk" USE flag, you can not have 1.8 > installed at the same time as 1.9 or 2.0.
It looks like ruby 1.8 wants tk built with the same threads setting, and ruby 1.9 and 2.0 (because their threads setting is now mandatory) require tk to have the threads USE flag. Your options are to either set the threads USE flag globally, or to set it only for ruby 1.8. Hans