On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Alfred M. Szmidt <ams@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Is "/usr/local/lib" still searched before "/usr/lib" by GCC by > default? If not, is there a way to force GCC to search > /usr/local/lib first? > > GCC does search /usr/local/lib before /usr/lib (you can use gcc > -print-search-dirs to see the exact details for your configuration) > when linking, but your dynamic loader might not (which is what ldd > calls, and what is used when you run the program). I think just > modifying /etc/ld.so.conf and putting /lib before /usr/local/lib (or > adding them in that order) should do the trick for you. Don't forget > to run ldconfig after modifying ld.so.conf. > I am using Ubuntu 9.10 and it had the ld.so.conf as following: /etc$ cat ld.so.conf include /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf /etc/ld.so.conf.d$ ls -l total 12 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64 2008-09-29 03:32 i486-linux-gnu.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18 2008-10-07 17:37 libasound2.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44 2008-09-29 03:32 libc.conf /etc/ld.so.conf.d$ i am wondering in what order the above three .conf will be included in ld.so.conf. thanks.
