Rick DeNatale wrote: > On 9/25/07, Eric Hodel <drbrain / segment7.net> wrote: >> On Sep 25, 2007, at 14:59 , Roger Pack wrote: >> >>> Does ruby compile by default with pthreads enabled? >> No. > > I seem to recall that one of the library extensions (Tk if I'm not > mistaken) either wouldn't compile or complained loudly if if found > that Ruby had been compiled without pthreads enabled. > > But then again, it might be my senility cropping up. <G> > If you have Ruby (1.8), Tcl and Tk all together on the same Linux system, they must all be compiled with the same setting for "pthreads" -- either all of them have it set or all of them don't. Ruby will complain during either configure or make, I forget which, if you tell it to do the opposite of what it has determined you did for Tcl and Tk.