From: Patrick Roemer <sangamon / netcologne.de>
Subject: Ruby 1.9.1 build and Tk
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:14:26 +0900
Message-ID: <gnui17$m4m$1 / newsreader2.netcologne.de>
> I've been trying to get Tk to work with Ruby 1.9.1 on OpenSuSE 11.1
> (Tcl/Tk 8.5), with no success so far. I have manually fixed the config
> as suggested in ext/tk/README.1st. (There has been a warning about
> incompatible pthread settings between Ruby and Tk, but trying to disable
> pthread support failed the build for me.) The build works, but when
> trying to use Tk, I get
> 
> /home/patrick/applications/ruby/ruby1.9.1/lib/ruby/1.9.1/tk.rb:29:in
> `initialize': out of stack space (infinite loop?) (RuntimeError)

I can't regenerate your trouble. 
My environment is 
> ruby 1.9.1p0 (2009-01-30 revision 21907) [i686-linux]
> Linux 2.6.15.4 i686 (VineLinux 3.2 base)
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