[fxruby-users] ruby-1.8.5 loads fox16.so more than once

[Lyle Johnson]

On Sep 13, 2006, at 2:46 AM, DeeJay wrote:

> fwiw, this is what ri has to say about Kernel#require -
>
> "  The name of the loaded feature is added to the array in $". A  
> feature will not be loaded if it's name already appears in $".  
> However, the file name is not converted to an absolute path, so  
> that ``require 'a';require './a''' will load a.rb twice. "

Right, and this is the behavior that got broken in Ruby 1.8.5. I've  
already posted the bug to the ruby-core list and Nobu says that he's  
fixed it in CVS (i.e. it should be working by Ruby 1.8.6).

For any follow-up on this, please refer to:

	http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php? 
func=detail&aid=5633&group_id=300&atid=1223

Thanks,

Lyle