From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2003-01-25T13:46:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Submodules and C

On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 01:37:52PM +0900, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

> Ah, sorry. I understand the issue now. Your wrapper idea sounds 
> workable. Or maybe 'require "math/const"'.

That's probably the best idea.  I think I'll do that.

After I thought about it, perhaps 'math::const.rb' was probably a bad 
idea.  There might be a system somewhere that might have problems with the 
"::" characters.


> I've never tried it, but what if the Init_X() function and Y.so (or 
> Y.dll) have X != Y ?
> 
> In other words, does ruby's loader look for Init_FOO when opening 
> FOO.so, or will it run any Init_BAR that it finds? I'm guessing not, 
> from what README.EXT says, but this might solve the problem.

ruby's loader looks for Init_FOO in FOO.so and Init_BAR won't work.

Cheers,

-- 
Daniel Carrera
Graduate Teaching Assistant.  Math Dept.
University of Maryland.  (301) 405-5137