From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
To: "Abhay Misra" <0infinity0@gmail.com>
Cc: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:43:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ejfdz0f3.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <831990c90710291830u30a5b17ek6f529bc0e14741c5@mail.gmail.com>
"Abhay Misra" <0infinity0@gmail.com> writes:
> I have been looking at http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Admin/ld-lib-path.html
> & the Linux man pages. I am just trying to work out if
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH is used at link time or not. I have been told that it
> is only used at run time, however if I set it and try to link some of
> the link errors seem to resolve themselves. Can some one please
> clarify whether or not LD_LIBRARY_PATH is used at both at link and run
> time.
When doing a native link, LD_LIBRARY_PATH will be used at link time to
help find shared libaries which are referenced by other shared
libraries directly included in the link. That is, for a native
linker, LD_LIBRARY_PATH will supply a value for the -rpath-link
option, q.v.
Ian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-30 4:34 UTC|newest]
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2007-10-30 2:02 LD_LIBRARY_PATH Abhay Misra
2007-10-30 8:43 ` Ian Lance Taylor [this message]
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2003-11-18 10:13 LD_LIBRARY_PATH Bansidhar Arvind Deshpande - CTD, Chennai.
2003-11-18 10:30 ` LD_LIBRARY_PATH Bharathi S
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