[LCP]3 questions...

[Vincent Penquerc'h]

> Not sure why you'd want to link a shared library.  It's the 
> job of the 
> OS to find the library for you.  Specifically, it gets done by the 
> runtime linker ld.so.  Look at the man page for ld.so.

ld.so will only find it if it knows where to look for (eg, you
added the path in /etc/ld.so.conf). In fact, ldconfif just does
that: link to the shared object. But you're right to mention
ldconfig as a better way of doing this for "standard" paths to
libs.

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Vincent Penquerc'h