Re: [Caml-list] Initialization order bug

[Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>]

Olivier Andrieu provided the right answer to this:

> This sort of things happen when :
>  - you have lots of externals in your module (here Perl)
>  - the module runs some initialization-time code that doesn't appear
>    in the interface
>  - the only values referenced by other values are externals
> 
> then the module is in fact not linked in : it's not needed because the
> other modules directly call the external functions. The problem is
> that often these externals do not work without the proper
> initialization.
> 
> Some workarounds are to :
>  - make the initialization code appear in the .mli, through a init
>    function for instance
>  - use `val' instead of `external' in the .mli
>  - use -linkall when linking the program

It works now, but I still think this is a bug.

Rich.

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