therubyracer on FreeBSD

[Dan Langille]

On Jun 10, 2014, at 3:17 PM, Patrick <gibblertron at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Dan Langille <dvl at biglist.com> wrote:
> I am trying to get therubyracer installed on FreeBSD.  We'll use any Javascript, but this is the one we are trying now.  Recommendations welcomed.
> 
> We are using FreeBSD 8.4 with gcc4.9 and ruby 2.1.2p95
> 
> I get 'bundle install --deployment' working,but 'bundle exec rake assets:precompile' gives a bus error.
> 
> I raised an issue: https://github.com/cowboyd/therubyracer/issues/299
> 
> Seems that bus errors have occurred previously on FreeBSD 8: https://github.com/cowboyd/therubyracer/issues/96
> 
> That issue took 10 months to resolve... Hopefully we can figure this out.
> 
> Any ideas please?
>  
> 
> If you can, I'd avoid therubyracer entirely. I wasted so much time fighting with it on FreeBSD. ExecJS supports other runtimes such as Node.js, which works great and without the upstream battle against which you'll face using therubyracer.
> 

We have abandoned therubyracer in favor of node.
— 
Dan Langille
dvl at biglist.com


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