SuSE Linux 2.4.21-215-smp gcc-3.4.0 My machines comes with a kerberos pre-installed ( /usr/lib/libkrb5.so.17 ). I have a self compiled kerberos at /db/opt/krb5-1.3.4/lib/libkrb5.so.3.2). I'd like to compile an apache module shared library against my kerberos libkrb5.so.3.2 version. Using linker options -L /db/opt/krb5-1.3.4/lib/libkrb5.so.3.2 -l krb5 and libkrb5.so.3.2 being in LD_LIBRARY_PATH I still find (using ldd) that my module is linked against BOTH libkrb5.so.17 AND libkrb5.so.3.2 Obviously the linker first tries to resolve the symbols using it's default path /usr/lib and then looks for the remaining symbols in the -L path. How can I get the linker from looking is /usr/lib first ? For security reasons: I cannot alter the contents of /usr/lib. I cannot refresh the library cache using ldconfig. Thank you in advance Nils