I searched the archives and only encountered a brief thread started by Alexey (ruby-talk:107425)...and it had no resolution...so...
We use HPUX at work, with Oracle 9i. The Oracle 9i bindings listed on the RAA compile fine, but when they are used, Ruby dies saying that "dlopen() can't load libraries with Thread Local Storage" (or something to that effect). Well, I know the reason--the libclntsh Oracle library links libpthreads, and you have to have compiled Ruby with pthread support to load such beasts.
Well, I can't compile Ruby on HPUX with pthreads enabled, as Alexey discovered. When I tried, the miniruby interpreter died inside the Shellwords module. I managed to tweak some compiler settings and got it to die somewhere else, inside ftools, as well. In the first case, it died on a 'break'. In the second, on a 'next'. The gdb was virtually identical to the one posted by Alexey.
So, I'm stuck. Has anyone managed to built Ruby on HPUX with --enable-pthreads?
If no such solution can be found, I'll probably try to do something with an intermediate daemon that routes requests between the Oracle client and Ruby. Maybe even a web-service based solution. Any such solution would incur some pretty severe performance hits, though, so I'd rather not go that route...
- Jamis
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