From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2002-12-03T23:49:20+09:00
Subject: Re: LoadError -> `require': (null) - /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/i686-linux/sqlite.so (LoadError)

On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 12:30:58PM +0900, ahoward wrote:
>   `require': (null) - /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/i686-linux/sqlite.so (LoadError)

I think this happens if sqlite.so doesn't have an Init_sqlite() functon.
E.g.:

[pbrannan@zaphod ruby]$ irb
irb(main):001:0> require '/usr/lib/libm'
LoadError: (null) - /usr/lib/libm.so
        from (irb):1:in `require'
        from (irb):1

If this is a C++ library, make sure that Init_sqlite s defined with
extern "C".

I wonder how hard it would be to get the interpreter to give a more
informative error message.

Paul