Reading the following :

>Some OS's (e.g. Linux) have a configurable loader. You can configure what
>run-time paths to look in by modifying /etc/ld.so.conf. This is almost as
>bad a LD_LIBRARY_PATH! Install scripts should never modify this file! This
>file should contain only the standard library locations as shipped with
>the OS.

So what is the right thing to do?

TIA,
Touchwood, Acid  Warrior