Hi, I'd like to revamp this useful patch from tedu@ that was never committed.
Lua-5.2 already does a similar thing. OK? Index: Makefile =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/ports/lang/lua/5.1/Makefile,v retrieving revision 1.1 diff -u -p -r1.1 Makefile --- Makefile 10 Jul 2012 15:04:52 -0000 1.1 +++ Makefile 8 Nov 2012 09:04:51 -0000 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ VERSION= 5.1.5 PKGSPEC= lua->=5.1,<5.2 -REVISION= 0 +REVISION= 1 SHARED_LIBS= lua5.1 ${VERSION:R} Index: patches/patch-src_loadlib_c =================================================================== RCS file: patches/patch-src_loadlib_c diff -N patches/patch-src_loadlib_c --- /dev/null 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000 +++ patches/patch-src_loadlib_c 8 Nov 2012 09:04:51 -0000 @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +$OpenBSD$ + +Make Lua C modules load dynamic libraries with global symbols + +--- src/loadlib.c.orig Tue Nov 6 11:24:02 2012 ++++ src/loadlib.c Tue Nov 6 11:24:41 2012 +@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ static void ll_unloadlib (void *lib) { + + + static void *ll_load (lua_State *L, const char *path) { +- void *lib = dlopen(path, RTLD_NOW); ++ void *lib = dlopen(path, RTLD_NOW | RTLD_GLOBAL); + if (lib == NULL) lua_pushstring(L, dlerror()); + return lib; + }