On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:36:43 +0000, you wrote: >What could you do if the system supplies a library, but it's not the latest >release, and you need the latest? Either explicitely link in the static version of said library or install the dynamic library somewhere else and link it in by passing the path to ld via -L and then adding said library to the users LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Philipp