From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2005-07-06T10:32:12+09:00
Subject: Re: tcltklib and pthread

Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> I haven't used Tk/Ruby for a while, and I'm trying to get some code
> working again, but ruby's support for tcl/tk, or something else in my
> linux installation, seems to have changed recently, and the tcltklib
> extension will not build.
> 
> (This is with ubuntu/debian sarge, and I installed the run-time and
> development packages for tk and tcl 8.4. My ruby is 1.8.2, built with no
> configure options.)
> 
> It seems that the tcl package is built with pthreads, but ruby is not,
> and the tcltklib extension is telling me that this is not ok.
> 
> What do people tend to do about this nowadays? Are there any downsides
> to disabling pthreads in tcl or to enabling pthreads in ruby? Which is
> preferrable?
> 
> Thanks in advance.

Never mind. I just installed and built tcl and tk with the default
options, under which pthread is disabled, and all works fine. I guess
the difference was in how the debian packages were configured (compared
with the mandrake packages I used to use).