versioning, backward compatability

Hi, I translated my library using libtool with the -version-info=5:0:0 parameter and I installed it into /usr/local//lib using libtool. Then I translated executable "prog" which was linked with this library. Readelf -d prog shows 0x0001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libmylibrary.so.5] Then I

Re:Why is "setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH very bad"?

Hi, Here is a article: http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/_/ldpath.html Note also that using of RPATH is obsolete (DT_RPATH in ELF) due to it's incorrect precedence to LD_LIBRARY_PATH. RUNPATH (DT_RUNPATH) should be used instead. This is from man ld.so: The shared libraries needed by the