From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2009-08-14T07:33:38+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: Ruby 1.8.6 pl383 released

Kirk Haines wrote:
> I am happy to announce that Ruby 1.8.6 pl383 was been released.

Has something changed in how pthread is turned off?

In my old build dir of ruby-1.8.6-p287, I have:

$ grep disable-pthread config*
config.log:  $ ./configure --disable-pthread --with-tcl-dir=/usr/local 
--with-tk-dir=/usr/local --disable-tcl-thread
$ ldd ruby | grep thread
$

I'm not sure all those switches were needed (I get warnings about the 
last 3 now), but it works--ruby/tk doesn't crash.

Now, with p383, I get this:

$ ./configure --disable-pthread --with-tcl-dir=/usr/local 
--with-tk-dir=/usr/local --disable-tcl-thread
[warnings about the last three switches]
$ make
$ ldd ruby | grep thread
         libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7de0000)

Same thing happens if I do simply:

$ ./configure

What do I need to do to get ruby to not use pthread? Shouldn't pthread 
be disabled by default, since "--enable-pthread" is listed under 
optional features?

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