>From 1a2fc824fa81324ceb2a310104ea26d0ecd0be4e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?=E5=AE=8B=E6=96=87=E6=AD=A6?= Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 11:13:29 +0800 Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Update documentation for the usage of libltdl. * doc/guile-dbi.texi: Adjust to the usage of libltdl. --- guile-dbi/doc/guile-dbi.texi | 17 ++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/guile-dbi/doc/guile-dbi.texi b/guile-dbi/doc/guile-dbi.texi index 4b0015f..02821c0 100644 --- a/guile-dbi/doc/guile-dbi.texi +++ b/guile-dbi/doc/guile-dbi.texi @@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ typedef struct g_db_handle SCM constr; SCM status; /* pair: car = error numeric code, cdr = status message */ SCM closed; /* boolean, TRUE if closed otherwise FALSE */ - void* handle; + lt_dlhandle handle; void* db_info; int in_free; /* boolean, used to avoid alloc during garbage collection */ @} gdbi_db_handle_t; @@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ backend to the dbi interface library. Its car is returns a status code number, cdr is a status return message. @item @code{closed} boolean, @code{#t} if the connection is closed, and @code{#f} otherwise. address@hidden @code{handle} is a void pointer used to point to dynamically address@hidden @code{handle} is a lt_dlhandle used to point to dynamically loaded back-end library, filled by dbi-open @code{__gdbi_dbd_wrap}. Set to ``NULL'' at connection close. @item @code{db_info} is a void pointer used by the backends as a data @@ -364,18 +364,21 @@ Used to expose guile-dbi symbols so, scheme can call them. @node How plugins are loaded, How to write plugins, Internal functions, Internals and Database Drivers @section How plugins are loaded -Everything starts at @code{s_make_db_handle}. This function uses dlopen -to load a shared library named ``libguile-dbd-bcknd.so''. bcknd is the -first param of dbi-open. +Everything starts at @code{s_make_db_handle}. This function uses +libltdl to load a shared library named ``libguile-dbd-bcknd'' with the +extension of ``.la'', ``.so'', etc. It's searched in the value of +environment variable @code{GUILE_DBD_PATH} first, then libltdl's +search patch and system library search path. bcknd is the first param +of dbi-open. @* If the shared library is successfully loaded, the dbh's field ``handle'' -is filled with the pointer returned by ``dlopen'' and dbh->status is +is filled with the pointer returned by ``lt_dlopen'' and dbh->status is set. Otherwise the status is set to an error code in the car location, while cdr is filled with an error message returned by @code{strerror}. @* -Once ``dlopen'' is ok, @code{__gdbi_dbd_wrap} is used to call the backend +Once ``lt_dlopen'' is ok, @code{__gdbi_dbd_wrap} is used to call the backend plugin connect function passing it the connection string. If this step also succeeds, then the db should be connected. @sp 1 -- 2.10.0