On Friday 06 July 2007, Garrick Staples wrote:
Why LD_LIBRARY_PATH is bad: http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/_/ldpath.html
Not argueing against you here, but "...is prepended to the existing list of compiled-in loader paths for a given executable, and any system default..." from the link above isn't quite true on linux. rpath'ed stuff in the binary is searched before even LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
/Peter