> [..] > I was told that new software could not be imported if it required the > LD_PRELOAD hack. This is the only known way to work around it, unless > we start building ruby with pthread by default (which we don't for the > same reasons our perl isn't build with pthread).
i'm curious to know why ruby is not built with pthreads support by default. in my opinion perl is quite different as it's in base but i'd think ruby falls into the same category as python. f.-