From: Kent Dahl <kentda@...>
Date: 2001-12-09T02:17:16+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27947] Re: Statically linked extensions and deferred initialization.

ts wrote:
>  No, no it was ruby-1.6.5

Wierd. But this still happens with the unmodified 1.6.5 for me.

<SNIP>
[kentda@v128a kentda]$ /usr/local/bin/ruby -e "puts $LOAD_PATH"

[kentda@v128a kentda]$ /usr/local/bin/ruby -e "puts $:"
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/i686-linux
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/i686-linux
..
[kentda@v128a kentda]$ /usr/local/bin/ruby -v
ruby 1.6.5 (2001-09-19) [i686-linux]
</SNIP>

Even thou these should just be aliases, according to the eval.c source.

<SNIP>
void
Init_load()
{
    rb_load_path = rb_ary_new();
    rb_define_readonly_variable("$:", &rb_load_path);
    rb_define_readonly_variable("$-I", &rb_load_path);
    rb_define_readonly_variable("$LOAD_PATH", &rb_load_path);
</SNIP>

I haven't messed around with the source of my main desktop installation,
so I don't have a patch for you. 

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