On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 10:52:52AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > if i call the old and new library locations "/old" and "/new" > respectively, one option is to compile the programs with: > > $ gcc ... -Wl,-R /new -L/old -llib1 -llib2 Hmm, -Wl,-R /new is wrong. Either use -Wl,-R,/new or -Wl,-R -Wl,/new or -Wl,-rpath,/new. The linker certainly doesn't demand the rpath to exist. If you want to link against say lib1.so that links against lib2.so in /old, but in the end will be in /new, you can use -rpath-link too, i.e. gcc ... -Wl,-rpath,/new,-rpath-link,/old -L/old -l1 > other options include working with /etc/ld.so.conf on the new /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf works well. Jakub
