<OT> MS finally gets a little smarter

[James McDonald]

Kurt Wall wrote:

>Quoth James McDonald:
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>>My question is:
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>>Lets say you had two versions of libmytestlib.so in /usr/lib and 
>>/usr/local/lib how do you tell it to pick up one particular library over 
>>another...
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>Note that a properly-compiled library doesn't use libmytestlib.so. 
>Rather, it uses explicit library versons, say, libmytestlib-1.2.so, and 
>and allows the dynamic linker/loader (ld.so an GNU libc systems) to
>figure out the library version at run time. 
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>At compile time, you modify the library path fed to the compiler so that
>one gets found before the other. Compare 
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>$ gcc foo.c -L /usr/lib -L /usr/local/lib -lmytestlib
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>to
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>$ gcc foo.c -L /usr/local/lib -L /usr/lib -lmytestlib
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>>I presume LD_LIBRARY_PATH is parsed left to right but what happens when 
>>you want to explicitly assign individual libs ?
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>You use LD_LIBRARY_PATH at run time.
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>>Ohh and BTW barefeet and a hot cow pat can be heaven on a cold morning.
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>Eew.
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>Kurt
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So as usual I discover the Linux system is inherently better than the 
old windows system. Thanks kurt most informative...


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James McDonald
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