ldconfig vs LD_LIBRARY_PATH

[James McDonald]

Hi All,

Just a question on LD_LIBRARY_PATH and ldconfig.

If you have added the path to a shared library to /etc/ld.so.conf and run 
ldconfig -v and your shared library shows up in the output from that command. 
Do you still need to define the path in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH env var.

I have noticed a lot of packages built from source instruct you to add the 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH env var.

I'm not too sure on this one...

Thanks in advance

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