Bug 220893

Summary:	dev-lang/ruby-1.8.6 - add USE flag to set --enable-threading
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Balint Dobai-Pataky <dpblnt>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Ruby Team <ruby>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Balint Dobai-Pataky 2008-05-08 10:35:12 UTC

there is an --enable-threading configure parameter for ruby, which is not the --enable-pthread
according to http://objectmix.com/ruby/331572-native-threads-ruby.html
--enable-threading should eable native thread mode
i'd like to be able to be able to build ruby with --enable-threading --disable-pthread

thanks


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Daniel Anderson 2008-10-22 05:36:06 UTC

The only reference I found to that parameter is that discussion (including a grep through the Ruby source package).  I admit that I haven't done much multithreaded programming, but isn't pthreads as native as you'll get?  From what I understand, the Linux version of pthreads is NPTL included with glibc and that's the "native" threading system.

Comment 2 Alex Legler (RETIRED) archtester

2009-04-04 19:11:37 UTC

We now have Ruby 1.9.1 which uses native threads. Please use this if you need them.