therubyracer on FreeBSD

[Patrick]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Dan Langille <dvl at biglist.com> wrote:

>
> 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.
>

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