I'm building a lot of ruby servers - I just want to understand if there are any negative implications of configuring with the "--enable-shared" option? The "--enable-shared" option will "build a shared library for Ruby" and I understand there are some apps/gems that require option to be set to give them access to native stuff via ruby. Essentially I can not find any negative impact to using it, but then I don't quite follow why it isn't enabled by default..? For instance could there be some implications if I build with "--enable-shared" and then update packages on the server (or even rebuild a new version) at a later date - could this cause orphan issues or anything? Thanks in advance for the help! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.