On 2011/03/11 07:15, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, Jeremy Evans wrote: > > > Because our lang/ruby/1.8 port does not link with pthread, but qt3 > > does, attempting to load the qtruby extension in ruby will currently > > crash the ruby interpreter unless you run ruby with > > LD_PRELOAD=libpthread. This makes the LD_PRELOAD hack unnecessary, by > > using -lpthread (not -pthread) when linking. > > > > I believe this technique was discovered by bernd@, it's also used in the > > textproc/ruby-hyperestraier port.
First time I saw it was for a required dependency of frozen-bubble and it spread from there. :-) > It's not a technique, it's an horrible hack and despites my numerous > attempts asking him to revert it, he never answered. > > > Tested on amd64. Looking for OKs. > > Personnally I think this is something we should not do, it's wrong and > shows the wrong example. But it may be just me. I don't have an answer but let's face it, both methods we have to "handle" this are pretty horrible and this is increasingly a problem..
