Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH does not supersede /usr/lib for AC_CHECK_LIB ?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Stan Guillory wrote:

> Actually, on Solaris at least, LD_LIBRARY_PATH *is* used to find shared 
> libraries to link against. It's been
> something we have particularly had to guard against, since some older versions 
> of thirdparty libraries we
> use have been installed in /usr/lib and it has corrupted our builds. In fact, 
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH seems to
> supercede the paths specified with -L flags.

This is yet another example of why LD_LIBRARY_PATH should *never* be 
set in the user environment.

Bob
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