Dear GCC Team, While trying to compile a project which depends on some shared libraries I used LIBRARY_PATH variable to make sure they are searched in the right directories during compile time. I noticed that gcc is searching for the path in LIRBARY_PATH first but in the below way Example: export LIBRARY_PATH=/home/narayana/dependencies/ -> gcc is checking for /home/narayana/dependencies/../lib first then some standard directories and then the actual path in LIBRARY_PATH i.e.,/home/narayana/dependencies/ and then some more directories. Due to this my project is getting compiled with libraries in standard libraries. Is there a way to prevent this except the usage of -L flag and also why does gcc assumes that the path I mentioned in LIBRARY_PATH has lib folder... Should I create a lib folder then will it work on all distributions? I tried with gcc 4.8.5 Cent OS and gcc-9 on Ubuntu 22.2. Kindly let me know if you need more details on this. Regards, Narayana
