- man ld.so explains the dynamic linking strategy and the role of
   LD_LIBRARY_PATH 

 - ldd <executable> will show the embedded paths in your executable. 

 - adding -t to your linker args (or -Wl,-t to compiler args) will
   annotate the processing of input files by ld.

Kent Polk writes:
 > On 5 Feb 2001 14:15:00 -0600, Nick Hudson wrote:
 > >Kent Polk wrote:
 > >> 
 > >> I'm trying to compile qHolo on a 1.5 system and appear to have problems
 > >> getting g++ to locate std libraries. The qHolo Makefile results are listed
 > >> below, but the libraries appear to be available:
 > >> 
 > >> $ ll /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so*
 > >> -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/X11R6/qt2/lib -lqt -lXext -lX11 -lm
 > ...
 > 
 > >Try using -Wl,-rpath or (say it quietly) libtool.
 > 
 > Tried all that except libtool. I finally started playing around
 > with explicitly naming and rearranging the libraries and managed
 > to get it to link. Can't get it to run without setting my
 > LD_LIBRARY_PATH though.
 > 
 > Now I've never had to set my LD_LIBRARY_PATH on NetBSD before and
 > everything works fine until this. Actually, that's always puzzled
 > me...  I've always had to set that on unix systems. How does NetBSD
 > deal with this?
 > 
 > Thanks

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Rex McMaster