December 08, 2017

The search order for finding libraries in Linux.

1. DT_RPATH attribute of executable called rpath.

* gcc -Wl,-rpath,/usr/path1/path2/lib helloworld.c

2. DT_RUNPATH attribute of executable called runpath.

3. LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable.

4. /etc/ld.so.cache

5. /lib

6. /usr/lib