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-rw-r--r-- | doc/ref/api-foreign.texi | 13 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | libguile/dynl.c | 7 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/doc/ref/api-foreign.texi b/doc/ref/api-foreign.texi index d99a33300..b0d6c249b 100644 --- a/doc/ref/api-foreign.texi +++ b/doc/ref/api-foreign.texi @@ -75,11 +75,14 @@ Scheme object suitable for representing the linked object file. Otherwise an error is thrown. How object files are searched is system dependent. -Normally, @var{library} is just the name of some shared library file -that will be searched for in the places where shared libraries usually -reside, such as in @file{/usr/lib} and @file{/usr/local/lib}. - -@var{library} should not contain an extension such as @code{.so}. The +Guile first tries to load @var{library} as the absolute file name of a shared +library. If that fails, it then falls back to interpret +@var{library} as just the name of some shared library that will be +searched for in the places where shared libraries usually reside, such +as @file{/usr/lib} and @file{/usr/local/lib}. + +@var{library} should not contain an extension such as @code{.so}, unless +@var{library} represents the absolute file name to the shared library. The correct file name extension for the host operating system is provided automatically, according to libltdl's rules (@pxref{Libltdl interface, lt_dlopenext, @code{lt_dlopenext}, libtool, Shared Library Support for diff --git a/libguile/dynl.c b/libguile/dynl.c index bf7163c38..e9c03e95b 100644 --- a/libguile/dynl.c +++ b/libguile/dynl.c @@ -64,10 +64,9 @@ sysdep_dynl_link (const char *fname, const char *subr) { lt_dlhandle handle; - if (fname == NULL) - /* Return a handle for the program as a whole. */ - handle = lt_dlopen (NULL); - else + /* Try the literal filename first or, if NULL, the program itself */ + handle = lt_dlopen (fname); + if (handle == NULL) { handle = lt_dlopenext (fname); |