From: Alexey Verkhovsky <alex@...>
Date: 2006-03-23T13:42:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on HP-UX

MenTaLguY wrote:

>If I remember correctly, the list of essential libraries is something
>like (in no particular order):
>
> - zlib
> - libgdbm
> - libiconv
> - ncurses
> - readline
> - openssl
>  
>
About a year ago, the major problems for me in building Ruiby on HP-UX 
was libpthread.

Reason: an HPUX process that wants to use libraries compiled as 
multithreaded (case in hand: the Oracle DB driver), must be compiled as 
multithreaded itself. Unfortunately, Ruby didn't work when compiled in 
multi-threaded mode on HP-UX. It did compile fine and dandy without 
libpthread, but then I couldn't use it for half the tasks I needed it to 
perform.

Alex