ruby18, -pthreads, deep recursion

[Marcin Wisnicki]

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.