From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-01-25T17:45:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Submodules and C

Hi,

At Sat, 25 Jan 2003 13:46:32 +0900,
Daniel Carrera 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.

Under classical MacOS, "::" meant the parent directory.
Although ruby doesn't work there.

> > 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.

Also note that it is case-sensitive.

-- 
Nobu Nakada