From: ahoward <ahoward@...>
Date: 2002-11-13T04:10:24+09:00
Subject: Re: setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH doesn't seem to work?


and from the dlopen man page :

....
NOTES

     If other objects were link-edited with pathname  when  path-
     name  was  built,  that is, the pathname has dependencies on
     other objects, those objects will automatically be loaded by
     dlopen(). The directory search path used to find both  path-
     name and the other needed objects may be affected by setting
     the  environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which is analyzed
     once at process startup, and from a runpath  setting  within
     the object from which the call to dlopen() originated. These
     search rules will only be applied to path names that do  not
     contain  an  embedded   '/'.  Objects whose names resolve to
     the same absolute or relative path name may  be  opened  any
     number  of times using  dlopen(); however, the object refer-
     enced will only be loaded once into the address space of the
     current process.
....

dlopen is the culprit.

moral : do not use LD_LIBRARY_PATH, use runpath encoding.

-a


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