On Sun, 6 Apr 2003, Christian Biere wrote:

> Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net> wrote:
>
> > > Sure, LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
> > >
> > it's completely not what i'm asking.
>
> As a matter of fact, it is valid solution wrt to your question.

That, by itself, isn't going to let you replace a library with a
library of a *different* *name*. You could use LD_PRELOAD for that.
You could also point the major (libfoo.N) symlink to the new library,
while leaving the actual file (libfoo.N.N) intact, or you could even
do all that in a seperate subdirectory, then point LD_LIBRARY_PATH
into that, leaving your installed system completely intact. Remember,
the ".so" link is used at link-time, the ".so.N" link is used at
run-time (assuming that the SONAME follows convention).

[LD_PRELOAD and LD_LIBRARY_PATH are documented, by the way, in
ld.elf_so(1).]

Frederick