FAQ? combining all modules into a single bytecode file

[Christian Lindig <lindig@...>]

I assume this is a FAQ but could not find anything with Google: I'd  
like to combine all *.lua files of an application into a single  
bytecode file (using luac) which I would pass to Lua at startup. I  
tried this but observing Lua on Linux with strace(1) revealed that  
all or most *.lua files were still loaded. I assumed that the order  
of the modules matters and tried the order as I observed it through  
strace(1) but this did not help. Is there a recipe for compiling  
everything into a single bytecode file?

The application I am looking to compile is the Nanoki wiki which is  
implemented as several modules which are loaded using "require" plus  
some C libraries. Obviously the C libraries would still be loaded  
from the bytecode. However, my question is completely independent of  
Nanoki.

-- Christian