Niels Möller schrieb: > To me it makes sense to search any directories in LD_LIBRARY_PATH > *before* the -rpath directories compiled into the binary. The last time I looked at the ld.so manpage for exactly this issue, it said what you say above (and ld.so even behaved in the documented manner! ;). On my woody not-so-current system here it doesnt mention rpath at all ... ciao, 2ri -- "Never" is almost always earlier than you think.