Re: Explicit current directory needed, why?

[Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@...>]

Am 24.08.2014 um 16:47 schröbte Dirk Laurie:
> Why, if I say package.cpath="?.so" does Lua fail to
> find the module, but if I say package.cpath="./?.so"
> Lua does find it?

From `man dlopen`:

> If filename contains a slash ("/"), then it is interpreted as a
> (relative or absolute) pathname. Otherwise, the dynamic linker
> searches for the library as follows (see ld.so(8) for further
> details): ...


And like with `$PATH`, the current working directory is not included by 
default.


Philipp