Re: linking at run time.

["Mohan Rao A. J." <mohan@netcontinuum.com>]

Hi,

You can use env variable 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH', which is
a colon-separated list of directories in  which  to
search  for ELF libraries at execution-time.

or 

if you want to make your lib directory as global to search for
libraries by the loader, add an entry in /etc/ld.so.conf and run 
ldconfig.


--
Mohan


On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, John T. Williams wrote:

> Is there a way to cause an exicutable to link against a specific library at
> run time.
> 
> let me explain a little
> I'm creating a dynamic library like this
> 
> $ gcc pop3.c -o libpop3.so -shared  -I../include
> 
> then creating an exicutable like this
> 
> $ gcc main.c -o getmail -L../lib -I../include -lpop3
> 
> both work fine.
> 
> in order to run my exicutable I have been copying my libpop3.so file to
> /use/lib
> then running ldconfig
> 
> and the file exicutes fine.  but its a bit of a pain in the butt to do this
> every time I recompile the library.
> 
> I was wondering if there was any way to run my program, getmail, so that ldd
> would link it against a specified file so that I didn't have to put a
> library that I'm developing into my /usr/lib folder.  nor have to run
> ldconfig as root.
> 
> I hope this makes sense.
> 
> 
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-- 
Mohan