ruby18, -pthreads, deep recursion

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:30:13 -0500, Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:37:07 -0500, Marcin Wisnicki  
> <mwisnicki+freebsd at gmail.com> 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.
>
> I must be behind with -pthread stuff for FreeBSD 7.x/-CURRENT. If it's  
> doesn't need -pthread any longer, then it's awsome. We can add a new  
> check of if system is below than 7.x then force add -pthread in ruby  
> port. It will need a lot of test first before maintainer or someone to  
> commit this change. I don't mind to test on ruby-gtk2/ruby-gnome2 in  
> RELENG_7 by remove -pthread from ruby port.

Yep, ruby-gtk2/ruby-gnome2 work great with ruby compiled without -pthread  
on RELENG_7. Nice! My suggest of add a new check should make everybody  
more happy.

% ldd /usr/local/bin/ruby
/usr/local/bin/ruby:
         libruby18.so.18 => /usr/local/lib/libruby18.so.18 (0x2807d000)
         libcrypt.so.4 => /lib/libcrypt.so.4 (0x28154000)
         libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x2816d000)
         libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x28182000)

% ruby /usr/local/share/examples/ruby18/gtk2/misc/filechooser.rb
[...no crash...]
% ruby /usr/local/share/examples/ruby18/gtk2/misc/fileselection.rb
[...no crash...]

Cheers,
Mezz

> Cheers,
> Mezz


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