# Pthreads on HPUX **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [March 1, 2006, 3:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pthreads-on-hpux/75231 "2006-03-01T15:46:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2006, 3:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pthreads-on-hpux/75231/1 "2006-03-01T15:46:20Z")
There are some historical references to a problem with compiling Ruby with pthread support for HPUX: [http://www.codecomments.com/archive327-2005-4-470857.html](http://www.codecomments.com/archive327-2005-4-470857.html) Although there is also a report here that it works: [http://www.rubyweeklynews.org/20050424](http://www.rubyweeklynews.org/20050424) It looks like the “fixed” report comes directly after the “broken” one, and some of the same people are involved. I would expect that the current sitaution is “fixed”, but I’ve not been able to find a blazing, 40 point: “it works - go install it” that I can convince people here with. Could anyone in the know, please confirm the current situation? Thanks you very much, Benjohn ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 10:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pthreads-on-hpux/75231/2 "2006-03-06T22:04:49Z")
Sorry for the late reply. This isn’t any 40 point process, but maybe it’ll do: [http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/177036](http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/177036) mental is the guy that wrote it, and he (apparently) uses ruby on hpux quite a bit. Dan Amelang ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 11:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pthreads-on-hpux/75231/3 "2006-03-06T23:06:19Z")
Quoting Daniel A. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): > Sorry for the late reply. > > This isn’t any 40 point process, but maybe it’ll do: > > [http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/177036](http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/177036) > > mental is the guy that wrote it, and he (apparently) uses ruby on > hpux quite a bit. I don’t recall having any problems with pthreads, but then I haven’t been trying to use extensions which actively require them either. In general HP-UX is a bad platform for building any software which wasn’t written specifically for it. Use something else if you possibly can. -mental ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 11:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pthreads-on-hpux/75231/4 "2006-03-06T23:27:50Z")
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 07:03:50AM +0900, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote: > I don’t recall having any problems with pthreads, but then I haven’t > been trying to use extensions which actively require them either. > > In general HP-UX is a bad platform for building any software which > wasn’t written specifically for it. Use something else if you > possibly can. > > -mental ugly is right, but I had even more issues than those with HPUX 11v2 on itanium2, with ucontext\_t not containing the members it used to on the HP9000. Finally gave up and wrote project stuff in Perl 😛 Ralph “PJPizza” Siegler ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 11:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pthreads-on-hpux/75231/5 "2006-03-06T23:55:13Z")
Quoting “Ralph "PJPizza" Siegler” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): > ugly is right, but I had even more issues than those with HPUX > 11v2 on itanium2, with ucontext\_t not containing the members it > used to on the HP9000. Well, that part’s not anyone’s fault really. ucontext\_t is very architecture-dependent. Any code that’s got to poke around in it is almost inevitably going to have to be adjusted to accomodate new platforms. -mental