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  1. Bug #520715
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Comment 4 for bug 520715

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Lucas Nussbaum (lucas) wrote : Re: [Bug 520715] [NEW] building ruby1.8 with pthread support causes puppet hangs

On 11/02/10 at 22:33 -0000, Joel Ebel wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: ruby1.8
>
> Puppet is hanging for us under Lucid with ruby1.8 1.8.7.249-1. I've
> filed the following bug with upstream ruby regarding this bug:
>
> http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/2739
>
> We're not the only ones seeing this problem:
> https://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/7efd79bcd807de4c#
>
> Given the importance of puppet to Ubuntu, I think it best to reconsider
> building ruby1.8 without pthread support for the time being. As
> discussed in bug 307462 it provides a performance boost as well. It
> disables libtcltk-ruby1.8, but no packages depend on that other than the
> ruby-defaults, so I'd consider puppet to be a far more important use
> case.

Have you checked that it doesn't break other (ruby) libs that are in the
archive?

puppet is pure-ruby. Are you sure that it isn't a bug in puppet? Or
something that can be fixed in the interpreter?
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