From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2009-08-14T12:15:04+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: Ruby 1.8.6 pl383 released

On Aug 14, 12:06 am, Luis Lavena <luislav...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 13, 7:55 pm, Kirk Haines <wyhai...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Joel VanderWerf<vj...@path.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> > > 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?
>
> > This is a good catch, Joel.  I was just able to confirm similar
> > results.  I'll debug this and get back to you.
>
> Perhaps this is related to pthread been always detected, even when --
> disable-pthread has been explicitly indicated?
>
> I remember report it to Redmine but cannot find the specific revision
> on 1.9.1
>

Found it:

r23601:

configure.in (THREAD_MODEL): reject unknown value and checks pthread.h
only when pthread. [ruby-core:23577]

I believe that needs to be backported to 1.8 and 1.8.6 since is a
problem introduced by previous pthread related commits and backports.

Cheers,
--
Luis Lavena