[CentOS] LD_LIBRARY_PATH issues

Fri Jul 6 07:26:16 UTC 2007
Peter Kjellstrom <cap at nsc.liu.se>

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
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